"Rest on death": Russia erases the Ukrainian identity of the occupied Mariupol - the media

Journalists write that the occupying power allows only the Russians to disassemble. This is to ensure that locals do not see corpses out of the city. Russia erases all references to Ukraine in the occupied and destroyed Mariupol. Yes, the Russian Federation massively demolished damaged homes, eliminates evidence of its war crimes. About it writes Associated Press. The material says that Russian soldiers, builders, administrators and doctors replace thousands of dead or Ukrainians who left Mariupol.

Many streets of the city, which were renamed the Ukrainian authorities, are now receiving Soviet names. For example, Peace Avenue is renamed Lenin Avenue. The Russian authorities plan to demolish more than 50,000 houses in the occupied Mariupol. It is reported that the occupying power dismantled the memorial to the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933. Two murals dedicated to the memory of the victims of Russia's attack on Ukraine in 2014 were also painted.

According to Michael Carpenter, the US Ambassador for Security and Co -operation to Europe, Russians spend excessive amounts of time erasing Ukrainian identity manifestations and devote very little time to the critical needs of Mariupol. The publication writes that on the site of the destroyed plant "Azovstal" the Russians plan to build some "industrial park".

The Mariupol Drama Theater destroyed by aircraft, which died hundreds of peaceful people, covered a screen with the contours of the building. The publication writes that more than 10,000 new graves in Mariupol have been found, which appeared after the start of a full -scale invasion of Russia in Ukraine. The number of dead can be three times exceeding early estimates, which were at least 25,000 people.

Journalists write that the Russians rely on death, trying to rebuild the almost completely destroyed city on the shore of the Azov Sea. As a local resident Lydia, who had to escape to Canada, told reporters, a 5-year-old son and a 7-year-old niece were killed during Mariupol's siege. The children were buried in the courtyard of the house. "We have taken our lives. We were taken away from our baby," she said.

According to her, no matter what the Russians do, they will not be able to return Mariupol lost, because on every street of the city they killed people. Another resident of Mariupol Svetlana, who now lives in Kiev, told the publication that she had died as a neighbor - just in her apartment. The woman ran from the city, and when she returned in a few months, she found that her girlfriend's body was from the apartment. It also commented on the construction of several new homes by the Russians.

"I do not know how you can now give us" candy "in exchange for destroyed homes and killed people," she said. Also, the assistant mayor of Mariupol Petro Andryushchenko, who is in the Dnieper, said that work on the removal of debris and demolition of buildings is trusted exclusively by the Russians. This is to ensure that the locals who could not leave the occupied city do not see how the bodies were taken out.

According to him, in many houses, especially in the Azovstal area, there are 50 to 100 bodies, each of which will never be worthy. These deaths will remain unregistered. Earlier, Focus told how occupied Mariupol is going through the first days of winter. Mariupolka, at least somehow survive the cold without heating, float windows with construction foam, but it does not help maintain a stable temperature in the apartments.