Mayor of Mariupol Vadim Boychenko noted that epidemics of dysentery and plague could break out in the city in the summer.

" Outbreaks of infectious diseases, dysentery, plague and other diseases may occur this summer. And these diseases can, unfortunately, take away thousands of our Mariupol residents,"

According to him, there is no drinking water in the city, sewerage does not work, the situation is complicated by many spontaneous burials..

He stressed that more than 100 thousand people remain in Mariupol.

Boychenko called on the Red Cross and the UN to create a humanitarian corridor for the evacuation of the population.

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Chaotic burials and summer rains typical for Mariupol can lead to an epidemic catastrophe in the city occupied by Russia.