Russian troops had surrounded Mariupol, a port city in south-eastern Ukraine, in the first week of the war. Taking the city, which was situated between Russian-occupied territories to the east and west, was a strategic goal for Vladimir Putin, whose troops spared nothing in their efforts to get what they wanted. For weeks, Mariupol was battered by bombs and missile strikes from land, sea and air. Buildings were levelled. Civilians were forced to live like moles in basements, emerging in brief pauses between attacks to look for food. Dead bodies lay in the streets, picked at by dogs. Others were dumped in hastily dug mass graves. Do you think that Russia only has to have Ukraine as west and east ?

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