In besieged Mariupol, in southeastern Ukraine, people are fighting over food, according to a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross.
All shops and pharmacies were looted four or five days ago. Some still have food, but I don't know for how much longer, said Sasha Volkov, from Mariupol, in a recorded message sent to the media. Many have no drinking water at all, many say they have no food for their children, he continued.
Besieged for several days by Russian troops, the city's residents no longer have electricity, water and gas. Attempts to evacuate the city and remove thousands of civilians have repeatedly failed, with both sides blaming the other.
Three people, including a little girl, were killed when Russians bombed a children's hospital, the municipality said today.
Some people destroyed a man's car to take his gasoline, said Sasha Volkov, who works for the Red Cross. A black market has already been organised where one can find vegetables, but not meat, he added. Residents have nowhere to go and are often confined to their homes.
Red Cross representatives who are in town have visited the destroyed houses to give food to their residents to survive for a few days. Many of us fell ill due to the cold and humidity, he added. About 65 people are hiding in the building where Volkov is located.
The shelter in the basement is exclusively for children and their mothers. Everyone else, over 12 years old, sleep in the offices, he explained.
Evacuation from Sumi
More than 80.000 people have been evacuated in the last two days from Sumi, a city in northeastern Ukraine and the outskirts of Kiev, the Ukrainian government said today.
In the northeast, more than 60 people have left Trostyanets, Sumi and Krasnopilya.000 people headed for Poltava, 150 kilometers to the south, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk said in a video posted on Telegram.
From the outskirts of Kiev (Borodianka, Bucha, Irpin and Hostomel) about 20,000 people left, while another 3.000 people have left, with difficulty, Izium, in eastern Ukraine, in the last 48 hours.
Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in another video, also on Telegram, that 60,000 Ukrainians were evacuated in yesterday's evacuations of besieged cities. Vereshchuk assured that the government is doing everything possible to make humanitarian corridors work and supply the cities with medicine, food and drinking water.
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