Mariupol visually and quickly degrades. An adviser to the lawfully elected mayor of the city, Pyotr Andryushchenko, spoke about the situation with the state at the beginning of March – a year after the beginning of his siege by the Russians.
Sources informing Andryushchenko noticed an increase in the number of people in a state of deep alcohol intoxication, as well as a significant concentration of Russians, both military and civilian, in Mariupol. Also far from sober.
In the city occupied by the Muscovites, another wave of joint looting by Mariupol pokikun and civilian occupiers is recorded. They clean houses, high-rise buildings and apartments.
Everyone is pulled into the street under the pretext of preparing for repairs. Then they share here. What is “good” is taken out. What is “unnecessary” remains a dump. Then there are amazingly furnished apartments, the owners of which have either been evacuated or have died. These premises are rented for crazy money. Now it is the turn of the Kalmiussky district. The area near Yubileiny is precisely the process of preparing for sorting,” Andryushchenko wrote.
He also noted the maximum criticality of the crisis with transport. The drivers, who had already declared a strike, were reassured with new promises, the traffic schedule was once again reduced, but there was no diesel fuel. Most people move around the city on their own two feet.
The mayor’s adviser believes that, in general, the city, despite the bright pictures of the occupiers, is rapidly returning to the state of the summer of 2022: complete degradation even of the repaired.
The average rental price in Mariupol is now 15-20 thousand Russian rubles (7-10 thousand UAH). Lots of free housing. Many don’t even give up their own, but those who are now in evacuation.
Every second message about the possibility of providing a lease with a prescription “for the Slavs” Russia brought its own racism along with the occupation. Such a “liberation,” Andryushchenko notes.
In addition, in the temporarily occupied Mariupol, the invaders set up checkpoints on all bridges, dig trenches near them and carry out mining.
The invaders set up roadblocks at the exit from Mariupol to Sartana. Full verification of documents (passport / filtering / registration) and selectively phones. Also checkpoints on all bridges. Additionally, they began to dig trenches near the bridges and carry out mining,” he wrote in Telegram.
In his opinion, this indicates that the occupation regime began to fear:
Even from the outside, it becomes difficult to convince in Russia here forever.
Source: Racurs
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