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Russian forces have positioned themselves around
Kiev
on Saturday morning and "blockade"
Mariupol
, a strategic port in the southeast where thousands of people are enduring a devastating siege, after more than two weeks of conflict in
Ukraine
.
The Ukrainian army indicated that the Russian troops focus their efforts in the capital,
Mariupol
and in various towns in the center such as
Krivói Rog, Kremenchuk, Nikopol or Zaporizhia
.
Local media also reported the activation of anti-aircraft sirens on Saturday in
Kiev, Odessa, Dnipro and Kharkov
.
After 17 days of siege, much of the attention is focused on
Mariupol
, on the Sea of Azov, whose inhabitants are cut off from communication, without water, gas or electricity and are even fighting for food.
It is an "almost desperate" situation
, warned Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
"The enemy is still blocking
Mariupol
," Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelensky
said Friday night .
"Russian troops have not let our aid into the city," he criticized, promising to try again to get supplies into the city.
"Sieges are a medieval practice" prohibited by the modern laws of war, Stephen Cornish, one of the coordinators of the MSF operation in
Ukraine
, outraged in an interview with AFP .
"Besieged Mariupol is currently the worst humanitarian catastrophe on the planet. 1,582 dead civilians in twelve days, buried in
mass graves
like this one,"
Ukraine
's chief diplomat Dmytro Kuleba said in a tweet accompanied by a photo of a ditch with corpses.
Iulia and her husband are among the few people who managed to leave the city since the beginning of the siege after having passed, with a heavy heart, through the Russian checkpoints.
"On the way we saw burned civilian cars, sometimes overturned. We understood that the Russians had fired on them," he says.
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