March 16, 2022 2:04am EDT
Ukrainians in shelled cities like Mariupol facing 'inhuman suffering': official
Attempts to evacuate residents through corridors have been unsuccessful
By Audrey Conklin | Fox News A Ukrainian coordinator for the humanitarian corridors being set up to evacuate civilians in the besieged country said cities like Mariupol, which have come under harsh shelling from Russian forces, are "on the verge of survival."
Heavy shelling of the port city, which Tetiana Lomakina described as a "strategic access point" for Russia, began last week when Russian forces targeted a children's hospital and maternity ward, injuring 17 people and killing five others, including a mother and her unborn baby.
In Kyiv and Kharkiv, which have also come under heavy fire, "a large number of people are hiding in the subway" and "spend their time reading the news, some play with the children, some can sing," Lomakina told Fox News Digital. But, she said, "conditions are very harsh."
Men cook a meal in a street in Mariupol, Ukraine, Sunday, March 13, 2022. The surrounded southern city of Mariupol, where the war has produced some of the greatest human suffering, remained cut off despite earlier talks on creating aid or evacuation convoys. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) "In cities like Mariupol, where there's no light, water, air, heat, food, mobile communications, people are on the verge of survival," she said. "According to eyewitnesses, their only saving grace is that relatives, friends and neighbors are helping each other, cooking on fires, taking water from streams or melting… the snow, lighting their homes with kerosene lamps, sleeping on the cold floor, which has caused mass illnesses among children and the elderly. There is no medicine. This is inhuman suffering."
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