defenders of mariupol. russia started a war in ukraine

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the blockade of Mariupol is a military blockade of the city of Mariupol by russian troops and their allies during the russian invasion of Ukraine during the russo-ukrainian war

it lasts from march 1, 2022 to this day for 13 days. due to the blockade, since march 3, 2022, there has been no electricity, water, gas, heating or mobile communications in the city. It is impossible to deliver water, food, medicines, children's goods to the city. between 200,000 and 500,000 civilians remained in the city. the blockade survivors are forced to collect rainwater to drink, food is cooked on street fires, and the dead are buried right in the yards in mass graves

ukrainian troops have been standing in Mariupol and heroically defending the city from the fascist invaders from russia for the 14th day (03/14/2022). putin's misanthropic regime has staged a real genocide of the ukrainian people. the reasons for the specific destruction of Mariupol are called the fact that in 2014 the residents of the city were not accepted by russia and the occupiers were expelled. experts say that putin thus decided to punish the inhabitants of the city and wipe it off the face of the earth

Mariupol is a city of strategic importance in this war. If Mariupol falls, then putin will have a land corridor from the occupied Crimea to the occupied Donbas. Mariupol cannot be surrendered, Mariupol residents must not capitulate

in american (transformers) and japanese (evangelion) mass cultures there are huge mechanical robots that protect civilians and help humanity fight against an invader or just pure evil. i decided to attach the defenders of Mariupol to this tradition. In an abstract form, I depicted a giant robot defending the city and all of Ukraine

the Red Cross described the situation as "apocalyptic", and the ukrainian authorities accused russia of orchestrating a major humanitarian crisis in the city, with the mayor's estimate of more than 2,500 civilian deaths (03/14/2022). according to US secretary of state Anthony Blinken, the russian army created a situation for the inhabitants of Ukraine, in which there was a besieged Leningrad during the second world war

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on march 10, 2022, russian troops purposefully fired at a maternity hospital and a children's hospital in Mariupol. this was confirmed by russian foreign minister Lavrov

british prime minister Boris Johnson called the shelling of a maternity hospital in Mariupol "terrible" and said the UK was looking into additional support for Ukraine to defend against airstrikes, adding that Britain would seek to hold putin accountable

UN secretary general António Guterres said:

"[…] the attack on the hospital in Mariupol, where the maternity and children's departments are located, is terrible. civilians are paying the highest price for a war that does not concern them in any way. this senseless violence must stop"

US secretary of state Anthony Blinken compared the siege of Mariupol to the blockade of Leningrad:
"every russian knows about the blockade of Leningrad during the great patriotic war. unfortunately, history has repeated itself, but now the russian government is brutally starving ukrainian cities"

pope Francis stated:

"this week, the city that bears the name of the Virgin Mary - Mariupol - became a city-martyr of the fierce war devastating Ukraine. there is no reason to justify the barbaric killings of children, innocent and unarmed civilians"

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