International outrage is mounting over medieval scenes of death and suffering in Mariupol, a strategic southern port city that has defied demands for surrender despite a ferocious Russian siege.
As Russia’s devastating onslaught in Ukraine neared the one-month mark, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Moscow was apparently willing to lay waste to the entire country to force his government to capitulate — something he declared that he and his compatriots could not do.
The war’s savagery — and its evocation of past horrors on the European continent — was encapsulated in an announcement Monday, from a German memorial foundation, that a 96-year-old survivor of three World War II concentration camps, Boris Romantschenko, had been killed in shelling in Kharkiv on Friday. The foundation said family members had informed them of Romantschenko’s death, which came amid what has been weeks of relentless bombardment of the northeastern city.
A subway station in Kharkiv, Ukraine, that was originally designed during Soviet times as a nuclear shelter is now housing people whose homes were destroyed. MUST CREDIT: Photo by Wojciech Grzedzinski for The Washington Post. “No one can say the exact number of dead, because people are buried in mass graves, without names. Many bodies remain on the streets without burial. Some people remain under the obstruction, buried alive,” he said.
The New York-based group Human Rights Watch on Monday cited desperate conditions in Mariupol, whose residents “have described a freezing hellscape riddled with dead bodies and destroyed buildings,” said Belkis Wille, senior crisis and conflict researcher for the group. “And these are the lucky ones who were able to escape.”
The refugee crisis set off by the war, meanwhile, has reached staggering proportions. More than 3.4 million people — about 1 in 13 — have fled the nation, according to the United Nations. Millions more have been internally displaced, with many jamming trains and buses bound for western Ukraine, which has seen significantly fewer attacks than the east, where the war began.
The shopping center, called Retroville, had fast food restaurants — including a KFC and McDonald’s — a movie theater and a gym, among other businesses. According to a Facebook post, it had shut down last month as the war began. It’s unclear if it was operating this week.
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