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In Ukraine, a new attempt to evacuate civilians from Mariupol was launched on the morning of Thursday 31 March. However, the operation is announced tricky because the ceasefire promised by the Russians, Wednesday March 30, was not respected.
AT Mariupol (Ukraine)Thursday, March 31, the deaf noise of the bombardments did not stop. A ceasefire had however been announced by the Russiansand it was to last all day. In the streets, some residents were not even aware of this ceasefire. Impossible to know who shot first. Residents have no choice: they have to go out and sometimes walk for miles to find something to eat.
For the past few days, food aid has been distributed by the Russians and the separatists in a parking lot. The inhabitants bear witness to the horror that their city has become. “Can you imagine living and walking on corpses?“calls out a resident, before another continues: “Walk over dead bodies that haven’t been buried for two weeks“. In the courtyard gardensbuildingsmakeshift graves were dug.
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