According to the Ukrainian authorities, eight Russian soldiers have been found dead in various places in the Russian-occupied city during the last two weeks.
Rumors about the mysterious deaths are swirling in pro-Russian channels on the messaging service Telegram, we are to believe the Ukrainian city council in Mariupol.
The Russian occupiers will suspect that it is local Ukrainian residents of Mariupol who have carried it out, in displeasure with the Russian occupiers.
Six of the soldiers are said to have been stabbed and two of them shot, according to the Ukrainian media Ukrainska Pravda.
This is happening at the same time as a hope of recapturing the city is glimmering on the Ukrainian side.
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Mariupol is part of the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine and was annexed by the Russian president last September.
Now the Ukrainian mayor who was driven out of the area speaks optimistically about a recapture:
– We believe in the armed forces in Ukraine. And we are sure that we will return to Mariupol this year, says Vadym Bojtsjenko according to the newspaper The Guardian. He lives in exile in Dnipro.
FULL OF HOPE: Mariupol’s ousted mayor Vadym Boychchenko, photographed here in April last year. Photo: Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters / NTB Show more
Bojchenko claims that the Ukrainian counter-offensive is approaching Mariupol.
Also residents The Guardian have spoken to, claims that the atmosphere in Mariupol has “changed dramatically”. Residents who thought Russia would occupy the city forever are now waiting for the Ukrainian counteroffensive to recapture the city. That’s what the newspaper writes.
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The siege of the port city was called “hell on earth” by one resident. It wrote Financial Times last year.
22,000 civilians were killed in the city after Russia’s full-scale invasion last year. 90 percent of the city’s infrastructure was destroyed.
There are Ukrainian plans to rebuild the city.
INJURED: These Ukrainian officials were injured during the three-month siege of Mariupol last year. Photo: Dmytro ‘Orest’ Kozatskyi / AFP / NTB Show more
Russia has claimed it is rebuilding the city. This has been contested by the city’s mayor. Bojchenko claims that only one percent of what was destroyed has been rebuilt, and only for the sake of the facade.
– This last horrific year should not be allowed to define Mariupol, he says according to The Guardian.
The mystery surrounding the dead Russians remains unsolved.
2023-07-05 21:00:13
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