A mosque housing 80 civilians, including Turks, was bombed in Mariupol, a port in southeastern Ukraine where thousands of people they have been besieged for days, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reported today. “The mosque of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his wife Roxolana in Mariupol was bombed by the Russian invaders,” the Ukrainian ministry said on Twitter. “More than 80 adults and children are refugees there, including Turkish citizens,” he said. noted without specifying when the bombing occurred. The information does not specify whether there have been people killed or injured.
This strategic city, bombarded for days, suffers a devastating siege. The inhabitants, barricaded in cellars, are incommunicado, without water, gas or electricity and even fight to get food. It is an “almost desperate” situation, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned on Friday.
“Mariupol is now the worst humanitarian catastrophe on the planet,” with “1,582 civilians killed in 12 days,” the head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Dmytro Kuleba, said on Friday.
A children’s hospital and a maternity hospital were attacked on Wednesday, killing three people and injuring many others, sparking an international outcry.
In this context, a new evacuation corridor attempt is planned to allow civilians to leave the city towards Zaporizhia, some 200 km to the northwest, according to Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk.
Evacuate the population
For days now, the Ukrainians have claimed that the Russian army has been shelling the evacuation route. As in previous days, tHumanitarian corridors should also be reopened around Kiev, to evacuate the population of the towns north-west of the Ukrainian capital.
“I hope the day goes well. planned routes open and that Russia respect its obligations to respect the ceasefire,” Vereshchuk said, in a video released by the Ukrainian presidency.
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While the Russian army continues to advance and position itself around Kiev, the attacks reached the city of Vasylkiv, some 40 km south of the capital, on Saturday morning.
Eight Russian rockets hit the local airport around 7 a.m. local time (05:00 GMT), which was “completely destroyed,” Mayor Natalia Balassinovich said on her Facebook account. An oil depot was also hit and caught fire, she added.