Inside Mariupol: Where Residents Bury Neighbors In Shell Craters



The besieged city of Mariupol in southeast Ukraine has withstood weeks of Russian bombardment and fierce fighting, but bears the scars and human cost of conflict.

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33 comments

  1. Look Germany! It was you who financed fascist Russia for many years with Russian gas. Russia shoots innocent people for your money. You French are also to blame. Despite the embargo on Russia, you were selling arms to Russia. You are complicit in this macabre in Europe in Ukraine !! Russians with Russian flags are driving on the streets of Germany. nobody does anything about it.

  2. Look Germany! It was you who financed fascist Russia for many years with Russian gas. Russia shoots innocent people for your money. You French are also to blame. Despite the embargo on Russia, you were selling arms to Russia. You are complicit in this macabre in Europe in Ukraine !! Russians with Russian flags are driving on the streets of Germany. nobody does anything about it.

  3. I thought this Philadelphia. Is the congress going to give a stimulus?

  4. I know for a fact when I was 18 to 25 years old, I was still kind and decent. NEVER EVER would I do what those Russian soldiers did!!! Even at that young and dumb age. Utterly despicable!
    BOYCOTT RUSSIA UNTIL PUTIN IS GONE!!

  5. biden will watch this movie called " butcher " on netflix after retiring from oval office .

  6. The crimes against Humanity started in the first day of war, February 24, 2022 with the systematic bombing of civilian targets (hospitals, schools, buildings, food stores, electric and even nuclear plants, infrastructures necessary to survive), killing thousands, causing the displacement of millions. They started in the moment a dictatorial, imperialistic and barbarian regime led by a greedy monster (Putin) decided to invade and destroy a sovereign free country (Ukraine). A free country, something that Russia can’t accept. Freedom is their greater enemy. Dictatorships can’t survive in a free society; they need lies, propaganda and constant fear. Our fear is their greater ally: «Our fear is their power».

    The crimes perpetrated by Russian army and militia in Mariupol were already evident about a month ago. There are images and personal testimonies to prove it, there are satellite images that show mass graves with hundreds of bodies. What we are seeing now in Bucha is just a small hint of what happened in Mariupol and in other Ukrainian cities, around Kiev, Kharkiv and the region of Donbass and it will go on. The Russian Army and militia are attacking and robbing systematically humanitarian convoys and doing all to avoid that independent observers may get into the city and reveal the whole extension of their barbarity. They stole humanitarian aid meant to civilians and staged an operation of propaganda in which they offer those Ukrainian goods to pro-Russian people, pretending to be generous liberators. The smoke that never stopped being seen from the sky in many places in Mariupol may be the rest of some fires that were never extinct… but after a month, one may consider a more horrid possibility: thousands of bodies are just being burned so the proofs of crimes of war and crimes against Humanity may be erased. In Bucha the same method was used, many bodies are not much than ashes and scattered limbs. It’s urgent to send immediately to Ukraine all the possible forensic aid so the higher amount of evidence may be compiled. And, please, NATO wake up! Close the sky, close the harbours and send all the possible help. That would cause a nuclear war!!! No, that would show that NATO really has an honorable purpose, showing that we care for the innocent lives that are being taken constantly and, very important, that we ARE NOT AFRAID! Our fear already caused too much destruction and killed too many. You can’t deal with a murderous dictator as if he was a respectable person. You must deal with him as what he is: a destructive bloody monster.

    Of course the Kremlin butchers deny everything and accuse the victims of the crimes that killed them and the misinformed and brainwashed believe them!!! Until know, there’s still millions (inside and outside Russia) that accuse the Western countries of bombing Syrian cities, though the truth is that Aleppo and other Syrian cities were devastated by Russia, causing the death of many thousands of civilians. Russia did the same in Georgia, Chechnya and in many other places. If there’s extreme barbarity, the most probable is that Russia was there, directly or through their blind servants. Those who suffered horrendous torture and were brutally killed deserve the truth, deserve our respect, and deserve our courage. Peace and love to all people of good will!

  7. Find Putin's boat and all he owns an bomb his stuff

  8. the russian people have had a taste of world news for years and are still clueless until poootin speaks…🙈🙉🙊 4th July 1950: Radio Free Europe broadcasts for the first time 💝💪🌻

  9. Hey i am missing a friend of mine from Mariupol she was a reserve ukrainian nation guard sniper i think i saw the chechens shooting at her defensive position. anne your missed, nooo come back,
    she was in her late 40's she had brown hair she wore it up in a bun most all of her life it was a easy hair do for her.Her name was ANNE MARRIKEYOVICH.
    anne where are you.

  10. Im just trying to find out if Franka Volkov is still alive. 🙁 She was in Mariupol with her family and her Instagram went quiet a week ago.

  11. It looks like WW2 😭😭

  12. The Ukrainian city of Mariupol is almost gone.
    Reminds me of the
    Oradour-sur-Glane ruins The Oradour-sur-Glane massacre June 10, 1944

  13. Good Rusia 🇷🇺 in the house

  14. Glad the birth place of Neo Nazi Azov battalion is denazified !! Sad that poor harmless people also affected for housing the hatred

  15. NAZI AZOV WILL BE DESTROYED

  16. 🇺🇸🇺🇸l CRY FOR YOU!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸GOD BLESS YOUR FAMILIES AND THEY REST IN PEACE- WE ALL HAVE SUCH BIG HEARTS FOR UKRAINE
    💜 ❤️ 💜 ❤️ 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

  17. 🇺🇸🇺🇸l CRY FOR YOU!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸GOD BLESS YOUR FAMILIES AND THEY REST IN PEACE- WE ALL HAVE SUCH BIG HEARTS FOR UKRAINE
    💜 ❤️ 💜 ❤️ 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

  18. If you voted for Joe Biden you’re responsible for this death.

  19. This is why Ukrain Must join
    Nato..putin has nothing to say….
    President Zelensky and Ukrain Must be allow to join Ukrain..
    The first thing at the negotiation
    Table…. nato must show the balls and allow ukrain to join..
    To stop what is happening now.
    PUTIN HAS NOTING TO SAY..
    if it is Ukrain s desicion

  20. It is quite clear that it is urgent to provide Ukraine with anti-aircraft missile systems of a much larger range (at least 300 km) to protect against cruise missiles and high-flying aircraft! In addition, Ukraine needs to transfer attack aircraft and helicopters, tanks, armored vehicles and long-range howitzers!
    Now Ukrainians are protecting not only their homeland, their homes, their children, but also other European countries from the attack of the Russian army too!
    Currently, Russia is not able to wage war against several countries at the same time, so now Russia is waging war only against Ukraine.
    However, Russia has the desire and prepared plans to capture all the countries of Europe! This is completely realistic, since the armies of European countries are generally much weaker than even the Ukrainian one, and have neither combat experience nor nuclear weapons.
    Therefore, they have no chance to withstand the attack of even a weakened Russian army!
    In recent days, statements have been made about the need to strengthen the European armies, but this requires a lot of time, and therefore, in the near future, Europe will definitely remain practically defenseless against Russian aggression!
    American troops are currently mainly concentrated in the United States, and therefore they simply will not affect the speed of the capture of European countries in any way!
    Putin said that he will fight this war to the bitter end, and therefore he is mobilizing more and more people and transferring more and more troops and military equipment to Ukraine, but the Ukrainians can destroy them, and therefore there is no time for delay!
    The Russians have surpassed the German Nazis and ISIS!!
    We urgently need to provide the necessary equipment now!

  21. Waiting for the bots to tell me it's fake news and that the Ukrainians did it to themselves by invading their own country.

  22. Putin plans to destroy Europe and deliver ballet bombs on Berlin, London, Riga and Vilnius. Tallinn and Tartu! While the EU and NATO and the United States think that Putin is preparing to strike Ukraine and then Europe must immediately frighten everyone and everything has come to a standstill! " everyone will sit and watch as fascist Putin provokes the genocide of the Ukrainian people!

  23. Hari Selasa.Jam.00:15 Tgl.5/4/2022/.Halim Talafuka,Allahumma Amiin.@$#.

  24. Even with war added to Brandon’s long list of failures, his voters still justify and support his spineless incompetence.

  25. “Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” George Floyd, 679 days sober. Liberals… Say his name!

  26. Media and its Western backers must stop misleading the public:

    (1) Russia is the most superior global military technological superpower; as a state, it is a World within a World, and it has unlimited resources. Its life style is healthy.

    (2)It has never been defeated in any war, not even in Afghanistan, at least since the world wars; and it has combat and administrative experience and success in most difficult parts of the world.

    (3) The might makes right – in this context, there is no judicial authority or power over Russia. What Russia decides and do is final, and it can't be stopped. If it decides to destroy the planet, it could very well do. Russia has the sword, and it can decide and implement how it's going to be used. It is not a country to be threatened or mess with.

    (4) Ukraine has done everything to upset Russia as well as drain its mercy with the assistance of the world's most barbaric axis of evil, the US-led-UK-based imperialism.

    (5)Any person suspected of taken up arms or likely to taken up arms is a legitimate military target in a war situation. Ukraine has asked and convinced all its civilians to take up arms against Russians. In this context, no civilian, specially when chance to evacuate had already be given and not taken, is a civilian, but an armed militant.

    (6)No building or infrastructure that's likely of a shelter of any armed personal is civilian – this is war, not ordinary day to day life style.

    (7)No children, pregnant, the sick or disabled to be used as human shields to provide cover for armed personal.

    (8) There's mounting evidence that Ukraine was planning and partially implementing chemical warfare against Russian forces, including poisoning the food and water. There were countless gas masks were found in the fields.

    (9) There's mounting evidence that Ukrainian troops were involved torture, and killing of their own people. In some occasions disguised themselves as Russian soldiers.

    (10) Apparently, Ukraine was made up by the Soviet Union (centred on Russia) – original Ukraine was much smaller (very tiny)

    (11) Ukraine's security was guaranteed by Russia under conditions that Ukraine would not conduct hostile activities against Russia. There's no fair unconditional!

    Conclusively:

    Ukraine has violated things in major ways, including being world's most corrupt financial hub for the elite, including politicians.

    Ukraine has a long barbaric history, and it continues to repeat its past.

    Ukraine put the US interest, above the lives and wellbeing of its own people.

    It was a pro-Nazi and racist state such as Poland, but much worse, given its barbaric history.

    Ukraine must bare the consequences for being a burden to Russia, including provoking.
    Ukrainian actions were covert – it used its own people as a shield, and compelled or forced its people both directly and indirectly use to fight advancing Russian troops involved in special military operation to neutralize Ukraine being a threat to Russian nationals and the state.
    Ukraine had gone past threshold – at a certain point, one side must accept the defeat to prevent further damage and victimisation. Ukraine and its alliance had total disragard for such.

  27. whats wrong with humanity?
    At first I thought Russian bombs have a weird destruction power ,they dont leave a car or a building or a glass in one peace ,but it looks like its their militray doctorine to turn citys into dirt , this happened in Grozny & Aleppo , its one thing to fight militray vs miltray and completely different when you do this to civilians this doesnt look like a mistake even this is criminal .

  28. Patrick Lancaster channel covered the events from the city. He gave his mic to people to speak out and have their voices heard. Their living conditions. Must see to understand the depth of the situation. He even helped in doing evacuations at his own risk

  29. Pain and suffering to Putin.

  30. Do we have the moral right to condemn Russians?
    Who bombed Yugoslavia, Syria, Libya, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan…
    Why were we not outraged then???
    Who allowed the Pentagon to create 30 bacteriological laboratories on the territory of Ukraine, where experiments were conducted to create biological weapons?
    Who supplies lethal weapons to Ukraine?
    Who turned a blind eye to the fascist units of "Azov", "Aidar"?
    Why did we applaud the drug addict Zelensky, who declared that he intended to create an atomic bomb?
    Why did our media not cover the GENOCIDE in Donbas for 8 years, where more than 14,000 people died?
    As it turned out, many Ukrainians do not believe what was happening in the Donbas…
    Why did we block all Russian media?
    Why do the media cover only one side of the conflict? Our media are skillful factories of lies! Even our presidents believe them…
    Few people know that the Ukrainian army is led by the Joint Chiefs of Staff (USA)
    Even Elon Musk provided the fascist regime with his space group.
    We have been hostages of the devil's democracy for a long time!!!
    There is not a single proof that the Russians killed civilians!
    Russian Russians for the first time faced a mean tactic when the enemy is hiding behind civilians????
    Russians are the only nation in the world that has been fighting evil all its history!
    Back in 2007, Putin warned NATO that if it gets close to the borders of Russia, he will respond. Then they laughed at him..
    We woke up the Russian bear in vain… He will turn the whole world upside down and become the winner! This was even understood by the Chinese, Indians and Arabs. An unprecedented economic crisis awaits us…
    I am against war!!!! I am against fascists in Ukraine!!!!!!

    The voice of real America – Lara Logan. She wasn't afraid to tell the TRUTH! Bravo!!!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXkFpu7pH2g&ab_channel=SignsOfTheEndTimes%3F
    Distribution of humanitarian aid. The city of Mariupol. 150 trucks are transported from Russia every day
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_BjDX6UsOc&ab_channel=ZOV
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgUSoZuWqjA

  31. Looks like I’m driving thru abandoned Detroit