More than ten thousand Mariupol residents are in prisons on the territory occupied by Russia,” the Mariupol City Council reported on Saturday.

“Peaceful, civilian residents were detained by the occupiers and sent to places of deprivation of liberty.. It is known about four such prisons: two in Yelenovka, Donetsk pre-trial detention center and Makiivka. People are in terrible and inhuman conditions, like in a concentration camp. Closed in cramped cells 2 by 3 meters for 10 people. Mariupol residents almost do not receive water and food. They are not taken to the street. They do not have any access to normal medical care and are subjected to various forms of torture, from psychological to physical,” the city council reports in a telegram..

The occupiers created real concentration camp conditions in which peaceful Mariupol residents are forced to survive.

“I call on the International Red Cross and the UN to pay attention to the illegal detention of civilians in the city. Use all possible tools to obtain lists of prisoners. Ensure that they receive decent living conditions. But work together on the release of every Mariupol resident,” Mayor Vadim Boychenko emphasized..

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Earlier, an adviser to the mayor of the city, Petr Andryushchenko, said that in Mariupol, the Russian invaders tightened the check and “filtering” due to the resistance of the local population..