Besieged Ukraine city of Mariupol buries dead in mass grave

[dalton99a]

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-mariupol-mass-grave-af9477cd69d067c34e0e336c05d765cc

Besieged Ukraine city of Mariupol buries dead in mass grave

MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Under steady Russian bombardment, workers in Ukraine’s besieged southern port city of Mariupol are hastily and unceremoniously burying scores of dead Ukrainian civilians and soldiers in a mass grave.

With morgues overflowing and more corpses uncollected in homes, city officials decided they could not wait to hold individual burials.

A deep trench about 25 meters (27 yards) long dug in an old cemetery in the heart of the city is filling up with bodies collected by municipal social service workers from morgues and private homes.

Some are brought wrapped in carpets or plastic bags. Forty came Tuesday, another 30 so far Wednesday. They include civilian victims of shelling on the city and soldiers, as well as civilians who died of disease or natural causes.

Other city workers are also bringing bodies so the numbers being buried are quickly rising and the total in the long grave is now unclear.






A body lies covered by a tarp in the street in Mariupol, Ukraine, Monday, March 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

[Cha]

1. ..

💙💛

[I_UndergroundPanther]

2. So sad

Fuck you putin,you fucking psychopath.
I wish someone would kill your evil ass and bury you in a trench with the dead you killed in your war of choice. May you become another of the nameless dead.

[Meowmee]

3. 😿

[maxsolomon]

4. SE Ukraine is majority Ethnic Russians, too.

Its the part of the country that went most heavily for Yanukovich, and now Russia is pummeling it with artillery and killing non-combatants.

The strategy is just... perplexing.

[bluewater]

8. It's insanity

[Wingus Dingus]

10. Their "mighty" military isn't guaranteed to win battles with Ukraine's forces, and

even if they win it's costly--so they're increasingly turning to terrorism on civilian targets. It's a nice, cheap personnel-and-hardware-conserving way to achieve their goals, and it upsets the western world, so...bonus. It's really hard not to hate the Russians right now. Really hard. I'm trying.

[Donkees]

5. Plyve kacha - Ukrainian folk song

[Initech]

6. Fuck Putin!

[Wingus Dingus]

7. Well, I just encountered a DUer on another thread who insists

that Ukraine is probably faking its photos for propaganda--I sure hope they have the proper skin tone for dead people. Or he's not going to believe this story either.

[Elessar Zappa]

9. I saw that post!

Ridiculous.

[ffr]

11. Extermination.

I just hope in my lifetime that at some point I get to see these war criminals, TFG and his cronies all come to justice.

[Botany]

12. I got a text from an old friend in Wisconsin and he is friends with a young man from Mariupol*

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... Ukraine and the man hasn't heard from his fiance for the last 10 days.

Oh dear God I hurt and I don't even know the young man. None of this shit would be happening if the Republicans and
Russia had not installed Trump into the White House. The Ukrainian woman had her visa blocked to come to America because of
something or other done by the Trump Administration.

* https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216462682

[Duppers]

13. Can only Imagine the grief and despair.

😭💔😭

[lpbk2713]

14. Putin is the murderer of women and children.

He bombs hospitals and orphanages.

I hope he comes to the same end as Mussolini. And soon.