(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 30 - The toll of the Russian attacks in Mariupol, which has so far reached 22 thousand victims, could increase significantly: this was stated by the mayor of the town, VadymBoychenko, on the Telegram channel of the City Council, specifying that new burials are emerging mass.
"Since mid-April, occupiers have buried at least 16,000 Mariupol residents in mass graves near the villages of Stary Krym, Mangush and Vynohradne - he recalls - and 5,000 or more people have been buried by public utilities by mid-March."
Instead, new mass graves are discovered this month of May.
In the old Mariupol cemetery, 25 new graves appeared with many bodies placed on several layers and then "masked" with plates as if they were individual burials.
Thousands of deaths still to be counted - adds the mayor of Mariupol - also remain under the rubble, in the traditional cemeteries and in the provisional morgues.
"We have estimated the death toll in Mariupol at 22,000 people. But more and more facts show that the consequences of racist crime are much worse. This requires special attention from the international community, as does the dire situation of the local population in the occupation." added the mayor.
Satellite imagery also spotted a fourth common grave near Mariupol's central cemetery.
"The Russian aggression caused one of the greatest humanitarian catastrophes in Mariupol - insists the mayor -. The city is practically destroyed by Russian bombing, devoid of energy, water and gas, on the verge of an environmental and sanitary disaster".
Today - he continues - over 100,000 civilians remain in the city conquered by the Russians, who have declared "collaborator Konstantin Ivashchenko" the new "mayor", creating a false image of "city life returned to abnormality".
(HANDLE).
