Right next to Asowstal: Holiday pictures from Mariupol - but the city is threatened with the next catastrophe
Created: 06/10/2022, 12:37 p.m
By: Patrick Mayer
The Russian occupiers clear away the rubble in Mariupol.
The beach is filling up again.
The future of the city in the Ukraine war is still open.
Now there is also a risk of a cholera outbreak.
Munich/Mariupol - In the Russia-Ukraine war, there are images from another time.
People, presumably locals, are relaxing on the beaches of the Black Sea coast of Mariupol.
They go swimming, they sunbathe, they take a break from the terrible events in their country.
Mariupol in the Ukraine war: Great Britain warns of an outbreak of cholera
And as this happens, the British government in London is already warning of the next catastrophe for the city, which had a population of more than 400,000 before fighting broke out on February 24.
Specifically: In view of the difficult humanitarian situation in the Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine, Great Britain has warned of the spread of deadly diseases such as cholera.
Health care is on the verge of collapse.
This applies not only to Mariupol, where fierce fighting had raged for weeks.
Among other things, the well-known Azovstal plant.
The Ministry of Defense in London said on Friday (June 10) that there is probably already a critical shortage of medicines in the southern Ukrainian city of Cherson.
"Individual cases of cholera have been reported since May," it said, referring to intelligence findings.
“Medical services in Mariupol are probably already on the verge of collapse.
A major cholera outbreak in Mariupol will further exacerbate this.”
Mariupol in the Ukraine war: Is Russia struggling to supply the population?
Moscow is struggling to "offer basic public services to the population in the Russian-occupied territories," the ministry said. "Access to clean drinking water is erratic, and telephone and internet services continue to be severely disrupted."
The government of Moscow ruler Vladimir Putin is trying to convey a different picture.
So the Kremlin sent the Russian disaster and civil defense.
Excavators and cranes can be seen removing tons of debris and removing wrecked vehicles from the streets.
Mariupol: Russian civil and disaster protection clears debris in the destroyed city © IMAGO / SNA
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Again and again, Mariupol is in focus, although the fighting is over and the soldiers of the ultra-nationalist Azov regiment have surrendered.
Thus, in early June, the invaders began shipping huge amounts of steel and cast iron to Russia.
3000 tons of metal should have been only with the first ship.
According to the
image
, there are up to 200,000 tons of metal in the port not far from the Azovstal plant.
Mariupol in the Ukraine war: pensions in rubles, "chaos" on the streets?
Moscow, on the other hand, is circulating photos showing Russian and pro-Russian soldiers distributing drinking water and food.
And that's not all: Apparently the occupiers have started to pay out pensions in rubles.
"It is now known that the occupiers have already delivered trucks with cash," Petro Andrushchenko, an adviser to the Ukrainian mayor of the city,
told
CNN
, scandals.” According to his descriptions, “chaos reigns”, there is “no organization”.
Holidays during the war: people recover from their exertions on the beach in Mariupol, with the Azovstal plant in the background.
© IMAGO / ITAR-TASS
Russia, on the other hand, is apparently trying to erase everything Ukrainian from life in Mariupol.
Street signs have already been exchanged for ones with the name of the city written in Russian.
According to the report, specially sent transmission vans are to ensure that only Russian state television can be seen.
The future of the city in the Ukraine war is still uncertain.
Also on the Black Sea coast, Ukrainian forces have recently repeatedly launched small counter-offensives in the Cherson region.
And President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had announced several times that Kyiv wanted to reconquer the entire country.
Mariupol is located in the far south-east - and will probably have to adjust to a longer period of occupation for the time being.
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