Mariupol is a city of ghosts, not people, as remaining residents have no option but to leave - Mariupol mayoral advisor

He said this in the live interview for Espresso.

Mayor’s advisor mentioned that the lives of people in Mariupol became a survival.

Petro added:

“The people of Mariupol are exhausted in this ordeal, walking around like ghosts, truly a difficult case. It’s a city of ghosts at this point.”

On top of that he mentioned that the Russian occupants are “cleaning” the Mariupol outskirts and the city exit road, not letting anyone move out.

“We can guess that this is the beginning of their true plan: to completely cut the city off and leave the only available road to Russia’s direction. Not the most gentle way of making people self-deportate and migrate to Russia’s territories. And there they will be greeted and distributed to other regions.”

Petro Andrushchenko compared this to the Crimean Tatars deportation in 1994 and underlined that today this same thing is happening with the people of Mariupol, with Ukrainians, and that this is a very sad part of our history.