The civilians stuck in Mariupol have now been without water, electricity or heating for more than a week. Food supplies are running dangerously low, and residents have reportedly turned to eating snow and drinking from puddles to survive.
for civilians to escape, but most of them lead into Russia or Belarus, a Kremlin ally that served as a staging ground for the invasion.Ukrainian officials have called Russia’s offers of safe passage “cynical and immoral.” And the confusion on the ground has made humanitarian efforts that more challenging.
“The humanitarian situation in Mariupol is catastrophic,” Laurent Ligozat, Doctors Without Borders' emergency coordinator in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, said in a . “Hospitals, supermarkets, and residential buildings have suffered heavy damages. And it is not possible to bring any relief supplies into the city.”A few passages through the safe corridor were successful late Tuesday, according to the ICRC, though hundreds of thousands of residents remain in Mariupol, many of whom are in desperate need of food or aid. Most residents are still bunkered down in homes and shelters as Russia continues firing missiles and artillery shells into the city.
“The situation is indeed worrisome and the needs are increasing each day,” Santana said. “Civilians are dealing with survival and separately you have people that are fighting. There are a lot of different things happening and a lot of different movements.
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