The Mariupol city council reported that more than 1,500 residents were killed by Russian troops during the shelling of residential areas and the blockade of the city.

" Blessed memory of those who died in this terrible war,"

" We will never forget and never forgive this crime against humanity, against Ukraine, against Mariupol,"

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The US State Department said that Ukrainian cities and their inhabitants today found themselves in the same blockade as the blockade of Leningrad in World War II, only now this violence is being committed by the Russian authorities.