Russian invaders forcibly removed hospital staff and patients from Mariupol to temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk region
IRYNA BALACHUK - THURSDAY, 7 APRIL, 2022, 10:41
MARIUPOL DESTROYED BY RUSSIAN OCCUPIERS. PHOTO OF AZOV BATTALION
Russian invaders forcibly removed personnel and patients from the Mariupol City Hospital №4 to the occupied territory of Ukraine.
Source: Mariupol City Council in Telegram
Quote: "The staff and patients of Matsuk City Hospital №4 were forcibly taken from Mariupol to the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine. Exhausted and frightened people were forced to carry out the orders of Russian terrorists."
Details: It is reported that the occupiers took Mariupol residents to the territory of the Russian Federation and the so-called "Donetsk People’s Republic". At this time their fate is unknown.
Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko said that the city and regional authorities are currently forming a single database of illegally deported people in order to return them to Ukraine.
According to him, Russian occupiers have forcibly deported at least 40,000 residents of Mariupol.
For reference: Earlier, cases of deportation of Ukrainians by Russian invaders to economically-depressed regions of Russia were confirmed.
12 days in Mariupol without gas, water, electricity, communication. Diary of Anna Kotelnikova
Previously:
Mariupol has been under a blockade since the beginning of March.
Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko said that according to preliminary estimates 5,000 people including about 210 children have been killed in Mariupol during the month of the blockade.
Russian occupying forces dropped several heavy bombs on a children's hospital, destroying one of the buildings of the city hospital №1, where nearly 50 people were burned alive.
The invaders also bombed the Drama Theatre, where more than 900 people were hiding from the shelling at the time.
