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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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