Stark before and after satellite images show how besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol has been reduced to rubble after being pounded by Russian shelling
- Stark satellite images show before and after the Ukrainian city of Mariupol was pounded by Russian shelling
- Pictures show residential neighbourhoods including apartment blocks, homes have been reduced to rubble
- Russian forces yesterday destroyed Mariupol's maternity hospital in 'direct hit', leaving children under rubble
- At least three were killed, including a six-year-old girl, and 17 more were injured, officials confirmed Thursday
By LAUREN LEWIS FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 06:39 AEDT, 11 March 2022 | UPDATED: 06:43 AEDT, 11 March 2022
Stark before and after satellite images show how the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol has been reduced to rubble after being pounded by Russian shelling.
Pictures show a residential neighbourhood in Mariupol that was hit by Russian strikes overnight on March 9 and reduced to a fiery wreckage with apartment buildings and homes destroyed.
Other images show a shopping centre that lost its roof after it was destroying during Russian shelling - two weeks after Moscow launched an invasion of Ukraine.
The pictures emerged after Russian rocket strikes hit a maternity hospital in Mariupol on Wednesday, killing three including a six-year-old girl and injuring at least 17 others. The West has accused Moscow of war crimes over the attack.
Mariupol continues to be surrounded by Russian forces but was still in Ukrainian hands as of Thursday afternoon, officials said. They said Ukrainian fighter jets and anti-aircraft missile units destroyed four Russian Su-25 attack jet and two Russian helicopters over the past 48 hours.
Satellite imagery before and after Russian shelling on March 9 shows the destruction of a residential neighbourhood in Mariupol, with apartment buildings and homes decimated by rocket strikes
Satellite images show a shopping centre that lost its roof after it was destroying during Russian shelling - two weeks after Moscow launched an invasion of Ukraine
Footage of the aftermath of the hospital attack in Mariupol on Wednesday showed badly wounded patients and nurses being evacuated from decimated buildings, while pregnant women were carried out on stretchers into a courtyard covered in rubble and littered with huge craters.
Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky himself posted a video showing the badly damaged hospital buildings, filmed inside a destroyed ward room with its windows blown out and ceiling partially collapsed.
More footage showed a car park covered in rubble and the smouldering wrecks of vehicles as injured families staggered into the freezing air while snow fell.
Speaking about the Russian strike on the hospital in Mariupol, foreign minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday denied that any patients had been inside at the time - despite pictures showing pregnant women being taken out with injuries - and accused Ukrainian 'extremists' of occupying it.
In a stunning act of hypocrisy, he outright denied that Russia had attacked Ukraine and added that the Kremlin 'does not intend to attack anyone else' - raising fears that Putin does in fact aim to go beyond the borders of his ex-Soviet neighbour.
Battle plans broadcast on TV by Belarus ally Alexander Lukashenko in the opening days of the war seemed to suggest that Moldova could be targeted.
He also vowed that Russia 'will survive' western sanctions on Putin's regime, and 'will do everything not to rely on the West ever, in any areas of our lives.' He added: 'We have no illusions the West can be a reliable partner, [it will] betray whoever, and will betray its own values.'
Mariupol continues to be surrounded by Russian forces but was still in Ukrainian hands as of Thursday afternoon, officials said as satellite images emerged of the damage caused by Moscow's sustained bombing campaign
Stark before and after satellite images show how the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol has been reduced to rubble after being pounded by Russian shelling
Meanwhile shelling in Kharkiv overnight killed four people, two of them children, with a five-year-old girl injured and rushed to hospital.
Emergency workers said they are still working to pull people from the rubble of houses in the town of Slobozhanske. Three people were also killed in shelling on the city of Sumy - two women and a 13-year-old boy.
Bombs also fell on two hospitals in Zhytomyr west of the capital, the mayor said, as Russian forces intensified their siege of Ukrainian cities.
Kyiv estimates that Russia has lost some 12,000 troops in the fighting, along with 335 tanks, 1,100 armoured personnel carriers, 500 vehicles, 81 helicopters and 49 planes. Moscow has admitted suffering losses, but has not given an accurate figure.
There has been no word from Ukraine on casualties its military has suffered. Russia says it has destroyed more than 2,900 Ukrainian military infrastructure facilities has has taken control of a number of neighbourhoods in besieged southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol.
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Ukraine war: Before and after satellite images show rubble in city of Mariupol after Russian attacks
Starving Ukrainians have resorted to 'attacking each other for food' and looting pharmacies in besieged Mariupol, Red Cross reveals as deputy mayor says 1,200 bodies have been 'collected on the streets'
- Mariupol has been without power, food or water for days amid constant bombardment from Russian forces
- Supplies are so low, starving families are fighting for food and looting pharmacies in harrowing scenes
- Bodies are piling up on the street with an estimated 1,207 dead in the city which saw no evacuations today
PUBLISHED: 03:23 AEDT, 11 March 2022 | UPDATED: 06:08 AEDT, 11 March 2022
The Red Cross said the situation in Mariupol is so harrowing that people are 'attacking each other for food' on a day in which not a single person was evacuated to safety from the under-fire city.
Supplies are so low that residents are melting snow for water and children are not being fed, with an estimated 1,207 people killed and bodies lying among the rubble.
Sasha Volkov, the delegation head of the Red Cross in the city, told the BBC there is 'some sort of a black market with vegetables' but other food is not available.
Medical supplies are running low and pharmacies 'were looted four to five days ago' amid the freezing conditions which drop to -9C at night with people huddling together for warmth in underground shelters.
People line up to get water at the well in outskirts of Mariupol with supplies running dangerously low
Graphic images show mortuary workers digging trenches 25m long at one of the old cemeteries in the besieged port city of Mariupol, and making the sign of the cross as they pushed dead bodies wrapped in carpet or bags over the edge
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