There are shocking scenes of death and destruction in the southern port city of Mariupol.
The images, taken by the U.S. private satellite company Maxar on Saturday (March 12) morning, show a landscape of smoldering apartment blocks, parks pockmarked by shell fire, and grocery stores blasted into rubble by Russian missiles.
Mariupol, which is located in southeastern Ukraine on the north coast of the Sea of Azov, had a population of around 430,000 before the invasion began. Russian forces surrounded the city and cut off access to water, food, medicine, electricity and heat before some were able to flee. Those who remain are 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217
Live updates of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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The Mariupol local council said in a statement on Sunday that the occupiers were deliberately hitting apartment buildings and destroying the city's infrastructure. According to the council, 2,187 civilians have been killed by the bombing, but an advisor to the Ukrainian president said the number has now risen to more than 2,500.
According to the Mariupol local council, Russia has dropped 100 bombs on the city since the siege began 10 days ago. Many of the dead, including a pregnant woman and her baby who were killed in the bombing of the maternity ward, are being buried in mass graves.
Multiple attempts to set up humanitarian corridors to allow aid into the city and to enable civilians to flee have fallen apart, and the Ukrainian foreign ministry has accused Russian forces of shelling a humanitarian corridor leading to the city.
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned on Sunday that time was running out for those still trapped in Mariupol and urged military forces to allow civilians to escape.
Hundreds of thousands of the city's residents are now facing extreme or total shortages of basic necessities like food, water and medicine. People of all ages, including our staff, are trapped in the basement and are at risk of dying if they don't escape. If no agreement is reached, history will look back at what is happening in Mariupol with horror.
Russia is placing a high strategic importance on the capture of the city, which will allow it to connect the Russian-held territories to the east with the Russian-annexed peninsula of Crimea.
Maxar is one of a number of companies providing a bird's-eye view of the Russian invasion. The Planet and BlackSky satellite companies are capturing more optical spectrum images of the war in Ukraine, and Capella Space is using its synthetic aperture radar to look at the ground in the region.
Live Science previously reported that Maxar snapped satellite images of the Chernobyl nuclear plant after it was taken over by Russian forces.
It was originally published on Live Science.
There are shocking scenes of death and destruction in the southern port city of Mariupol.
The images, taken by the U.S. private satellite company Maxar on Saturday (March 12) morning, show a landscape of smoldering apartment blocks, parks pockmarked by shell fire, and grocery stores blasted into rubble by Russian missiles.
Mariupol, which is located in southeastern Ukraine on the north coast of the Sea of Azov, had a population of around 430,000 before the invasion began. Russian forces surrounded the city and cut off access to water, food, medicine, electricity and heat before some were able to flee. Those who remain are 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217
Live updates of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The Mariupol local council said in a statement on Sunday that the occupiers were deliberately hitting apartment buildings and destroying the city's infrastructure. According to the council, 2,187 civilians have been killed by the bombing, but an advisor to the Ukrainian president said the number has now risen to more than 2,500.
According to the Mariupol local council, Russia has dropped 100 bombs on the city since the siege began 10 days ago. Many of the dead, including a pregnant woman and her baby who were killed in the bombing of the maternity ward, are being buried in mass graves.
Multiple attempts to set up humanitarian corridors to allow aid into the city and to enable civilians to flee have fallen apart, and the Ukrainian foreign ministry has accused Russian forces of shelling a humanitarian corridor leading to the city.
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned on Sunday that time was running out for those still trapped in Mariupol and urged military forces to allow civilians to escape.
Hundreds of thousands of the city's residents are now facing extreme or total shortages of basic necessities like food, water and medicine. People of all ages, including our staff, are trapped in the basement and are at risk of dying if they don't escape. If no agreement is reached, history will look back at what is happening in Mariupol with horror.
Russia is placing a high strategic importance on the capture of the city, which will allow it to connect the Russian-held territories to the east with the Russian-annexed peninsula of Crimea.
Maxar is one of a number of companies providing a bird's-eye view of the Russian invasion. The Planet and BlackSky satellite companies are capturing more optical spectrum images of the war in Ukraine, and Capella Space is using its synthetic aperture radar to look at the ground in the region.
Live Science previously reported that Maxar snapped satellite images of the Chernobyl nuclear plant after it was taken over by Russian forces.
It was originally published on Live Science.
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