“The Russians have overcome the Nazi crimes in Mariupol,” said the army commander

The head of the military administration of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko, compared the situation in Mariupol today with that of about eighty years ago, when the city was occupied by the Nazis. Today, the port city in the Donetsk region is besieged by Russian forces, who invaded Ukraine two months ago.

“More brutality, more murder, more destruction. The Russians have already repeated and exceeded the crimes of the Nazis in Mariupol. They will repeat the glorious flight,” Kyrylenko said. Mariupol officials estimate that more than 10,000 people died in the city.

The military chief saved the testimonies of Mariupol residents to the press about the Nazi occupation in September 1943. They said the city had turned into a “great cemetery”.

According to Kyrylenko, residents “could not have foreseen then that the Russian invasion would be even more devastating”.

Referring to the reports in the Soviet newspapers at the time, he remembered the German flight with records of looting and assault. “And just as then, it will end sadly for the invaders, and the blue and yellow flag of freedom will again fly over Mariupol,” said Kyrylenko. Said.

Today, Mariupol has been practically destroyed by the resistance at the site of the Azovstal power plant. This Monday (25), the Russians demanded the evacuation of civilians from the area. Ukraine has stated that it fears a Russian attack to remove this group from the site.