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The inhabitants of Mariupol, a city in southeastern

Ukraine

besieged by Russian troops two weeks ago, are running out of food and water.

Virtually no humanitarian aid has been allowed in during this time, the UN World Food Program (WFP) warned today.

"The only way to assist Mariupol is through humanitarian convoys, which have so far failed to enter," said WFP Ukraine Emergency Coordinator Jakob Kern from Krakow, Poland.

Other partially fenced cities such as Kharkov, kyiv, Odessa or Sumy are being able to receive help from the United Nations program, which has mobilized supplies to feed three million people for a month.

This Friday 130 people were rescued from the rubble of the theater bombed last Wednesday in Mariupol, according to the human rights defender of Ukraine, Lyudmyla Denisova.

Denisova assured that the rescue work continued in the theater in which hundreds of people took refuge underground.

Yesterday, the former head of the Donetsk region, Serhiy Taruta, claimed that there were about 1,300 people inside the theater during the shelling.

Speaking in an interview on Ukrainian television yesterday afternoon, Taruta said the rescue was proving very difficult due to the complete collapse of social services.

Mariupol, on the shores of the inland sea of ​​Azov and where nearly half a million people live, has been under a

blockade for 17 days,

and around 12,000 to 14,000 Russian soldiers, according to Ukrainian deputy Sergiy Taruta.

The Mayor's Office of the city, key to the land corridor that, according to Kiev and the West,

Russia wants to build from Donbas to the annexed Crimean peninsula

, has announced that more than 350,000 residents remain in a critical situation in shelters.

In addition, "between 50 and 100 bombs fall on the city every day" and that "around 80% of the city's housing stock has been destroyed."

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