Putin’s troops are using patients as human shields in the embattled Black Sea city.
Kremlin despot Vladimir Putin (69) has been bombing Ukraine for 20 days now. Contrary to what the Russian side claims, civilian targets are regularly shot at. The bombing of the Mariupol maternity hospital is another gruesome example of Putin’s indifference to people being injured and killed by his rockets.
Now there was another incident: Russian troops took hostage the staff and patients of the Regional Intensive Care Hospital in the city.
► They use the Ukrainian civilians as a human shield! This was initially reported by the “Media Initiative for Human Rights” from Mariupol. On Tuesday afternoon, the deputy mayor of Mariupol, Sergey Orlov, confirmed the incident to CNN.
Pavlo Kyrylenko from the military administration of the Donetsk region wrote on his Telegram channel: “The Russian occupiers have taken doctors and patients hostage. One of the hospital workers was able to tell.”
According to this, 400 other civilians from nearby houses were also locked up in the hospital. The clinic is the largest in the Donetsk region. According to the media initiative, the hospital in Mariupol was occupied by Russian forces on Monday morning.
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Accordingly, other civilians are no longer allowed to enter the clinic. At the same time, Putin’s troops would shell positions of the Ukrainian army from the hospital’s windows in order to provoke a reaction.
According to an eyewitness, the Russian military does not let anyone out of the hospital and threatens to shoot, according to the initiative. The patients who risked escaping sustained gunshot wounds.
20,000 people fled Mariupol
Meanwhile, Ukrainian authorities said around 20,000 people were able to flee the embattled city on Tuesday. A total of 4,000 private cars could have left the metropolis on the Azov Sea on Tuesday, wrote the deputy head of the presidential office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, on Telegram in the evening.
Of these, 570 vehicles have already arrived in the city of Zaporizhia, more than 200 kilometers to the north-west, it said.
Recent attempts by an aid convoy to bring food and medicine from the western city of Berdyansk to Mariupol failed again and again.