While fighting has subsided in the Ukrainian port city, humanitarian agencies say they're having difficulties delivering badly needed aid.
Ukrainian officials say the Russian-occupied city of Mariupol is running desperately low on food and essential goods with no new expected deliveries from the occupying forces.
Alexander Motuzyanyk, spokesman for the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, on Thursday presented the grim outlook for the southern port city that's seen some of the heaviest fighting in the war with Russia. His assessment follows humanitarian agencies also reporting they've been unable to deliver relief to Mariupol's civilian population.
"Our intelligence reports that in Mariupol, as well as in most of the Ukrainian territories occupied by Russian invaders, almost all stocks of food, as well as essential goods, have been exhausted, and there are no new deliveries from Russia," Motuzyanyk said at a press briefing in Kyiv,Motuzyanyk said that there has been a big jump in prices of essential foods since the start of June and a drop in humanitarian aid, according to the news agency.
Mariupol faces a humanitarian crisis, relief agencies and Ukrainian officials said. Above, ruins of the Azovstal steel plant in the city are shown amid the Russian military invasion of Ukraine.Located on the Azov Sea, Moscow has sought to seize control of Mariupol to give forces a corridor connecting Russian-occupied Crimea to Ukraine's eastern Donbas region.
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