Russian forces fail to start heating season or provide basic utilities in Mariupol -  mayor

Mariupol's Mayor Vadym Boichenko shared the latest information from the scene on air during the telethon.

“The heating season has not yet started in Mariupol. People are sitting in the cold and freezing. We see inscriptions both on entrances and on apartments: “SOS! We are freezing”. All Russian propaganda crashed then confronted with the winter that has arrived in Ukraine,” Vadym Boichenko said. 

The mayor also noted that the Russian occupation authorities are unable to ensure the normal functioning of the city. The only thing the Russian enemy does is hand out heaters to local residents.

“People line up in kilometer-long queues, fight for these heaters, and go through this humiliating procedure. But the worst thing is: in order to plug the heater into the socket, you need to have electricity. And there is not enough electricity to meet the heightened needs of the heating season. They did not provide this fundamental requirement for life. And, accordingly, we see dozens of fires that destroy at least some housing in Mariupol,” the city's mayor noted. 

• On November 30, the mayor's advisor Petro Andriushchenko reported that there is no food or money to buy it in the Mariupol district, so people are forced to live on "humanitarian food aid" which is not enough for everyone.