MARIUPOL, Ukraine, April 29 (Reuters) - Residents of Mariupol recounted the horrors of the battle for their now devastated city this week as they sifted through the rubble for belongings, cooked meals by the roadside or just stared at the charred shells...
“It was terrible… like films that show the last days of the planet – the same thing happened here,” said Viktoria Nikolayeva, 54, who like many residents stayed with her family in a basement as Russian and Ukrainian forces battled overhead.
Emergency services were seen on the streets collecting the bodies of those who did not survive the weeks of fighting. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s office said an operation was planned on Friday to get civilians out of the plant but gave no details. Previous evacuation efforts have failed.
A makeshift wooden cross – one of many around the city – marked the spot near an apartment block where somebody had been hastily and temporarily buried during the fighting.
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