Mariupol, One Year After The Devastating Russian Siege
Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reportedly visited Mariupol recently, a city that remains largely ruined a year after the devastating Russian encirclement.
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This was the scene outside a Mariupol maternity hospital on March 9, 2022, after a Russian air strike devastated the facility, killing at least four people and leading to one stillbirth.
At the time, Mariupol had just been completely encircled by Russian forces and would become the scene of some of the invasion’s most devastating destruction as the invading forces closed in and eventually captured the coastal Ukrainian city.
At the time, Mariupol had just been completely encircled by Russian forces and would become the scene of some of the invasion’s most devastating destruction as the invading forces closed in and eventually captured the coastal Ukrainian city.
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This photo of burned-out railway cars on Mariupol’s main beach, and a partly frozen Sea of Azov, was taken on February 25, 2023.
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Children pass shrapnel-scarred buildings in Mariupol on February 25, 2023. Thousands of civilians were killed during the Russian siege. Russia claims 3,000 civilians were killed, while Kyiv claims that more than 25,000 died.
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An excavator demolishes a ruined apartment block in Mariupol on February 15, 2023. This photo and the following six images made by photographer Alexander Ermochenko were taken between early to mid-February 2023 but were released by Reuters on February 22.
