The mayor of Mariupol, Vadim Boychenko, said that during the full-scale war of Russia against Ukraine, more than 10 thousand Ukrainian civilians died in the city.. He spoke about this in a telephone interview with AP..

According to him, the number of victims may exceed 20,000, because as a result of constant attacks by the Russian military, the bodies of Mariupol residents were "

Boychenko also noted that the occupiers had been blocking humanitarian convoys traveling to Mariupol for weeks to hide the massacres of civilians..

In addition, the mayor told new details about the use of mobile crematoria by the Russian military to hide the number of deaths during the blockade of the city..

According to Boychenko, Russian troops took many bodies of Mariupol residents to a huge shopping center, where there are warehouses and refrigerators.. The occupiers disguised the crematoria as ordinary trucks.

“Mobile crematoriums arrived in the form of trucks: you open it, and inside there is a pipe, and these bodies are burned,” the mayor explained.

The AP clarified that the mayor spoke with the publication, being in the territory controlled by Ukraine, where he left Mariupol. According to him, he received information about the use of mobile crematoria in the city from several sources at once..

Boychenko also noted that about 120 thousand people still remain in Mariupol in need of food, water, warmth and communication..

He added that only those who passed the Russian " For people who did not go through "

Earlier, three people were injured as a result of an explosion of an unknown substance that the Russian military dropped on Mariupol from a drone.. However, the head of the Donetsk OVA said that it was too early to say what kind of substance it was and whether the attack could be classified as a chemical attack..