Mariupol Deputy Mayor Serhiy Orlov told the Forbes in an interview that as of March 13, 2 358 people had died in the city. Under the rubble there are people about whom nothing is known. Therefore, this number can be twice as large. People are buried in mass graves in the City Garden and in the center. Russians do not allow to go to the cemetery. 80-90% of the city has been bombed. Not a single building has been left undamaged. No factory works. It is no longer possible to run it all. Azovstal was completely bombed. It should be reminded that a humanitarian catastrophe continues in the city due to the occupation. No electricity, gas, heat, water. According to Orlov, people drained water from heating systems and used it, used puddles and when there was snow, melted it.

A US citizen was killed in a shelling in Chernihiv on March 17. In the morning, Russian troops fired on civilians on the streets of a neighborhood in central Chernihiv. The press service of the police reported on the dead and injured. The exact number can not be named yet. Among others, people standing in line for water came under fire from Russian troops. As told to Suspilne, among the dead there’s a man born in 1954, a native of Minnesota.

The bodies of 5 people were taken from under the rubble of a dormitory in Chernihiv. This is a family: a man, a woman and three children, specifically, three-year-old twins, a boy and a girl, and a 12-year-old girl. They all died in an air strike on a dormitory on March 13.

In the town of Merefa in Kharkiv region, 21 people were killed and 25 others were injured in a night of Russian shelling. The debris are being dismantled there, the Regional Prosecutor's Office said. It should be reminded that as a result of the Russian shelling, the school and the house of culture were destroyed, as well as the houses around.