“They are destroying the city like Hiroshima but little by little”

The Ukrainian city of Mariupol -says the mayor’s right-hand man- is already in ruins in a 90%. fall around a hundred russian bombs a dayaccording to his shocking story. “They are annihilating us like in Hiroshima but little by little”, he adds in a online conference in which they participate Ukrainian local authorities and other European countries within the framework of the virtual meeting which is titled Local governments unite for well-being and peace. All the representatives of the Ukrainian municipalities that have participated – from kyiv to Mariupol via Lviv and Dunaivtsi – have insisted on asking their Western counterparts for the need to create a no fly zone to prevent Russian bombing and to develop a concrete plan to ensure Ukraine’s accession to the European Union (EU).

“Mariúpol is the city of heroes,” says the deputy mayor, who has replaced the mayor of the ill-fated city, “pending on more transcendental issues.” “And – he adds – a city of death, blood and tears”. The municipal authority quantifies in more than 3,000 civilians killed in the city, besieged on all sides. “Russia is committing genocide but not only against the Ukrainian population but against many minorities, including the Russian, 50% of the population of Mariupol,” says the municipal representative. He has recalled the bombing of the city theater despite the visible warning from the air that there were children, as well as the school.

“Who will be next?”

The mayor of the capital, kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, has assured that Russia’s objective continues to be “create panic and sow chaos”. “Whoever believes that this is an attack only on Ukraine is making a serious mistake because it is an attack on every citizen of the world, every European and, therefore, it is everyone’s job”, he said after recalling that we are facing the worst war since World War II. “Who will be next? The Czech Republic, Germany?” she added.

Klitschko he has argued that Putin’s goal is to re-edit the Soviet Union. “I am the mayor of kyiv and as mayor I assure you that they will not put up their flag,” he has said vehemently about the Russian takeover of the city.

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The mayor has demanded humanitarian aidas much as possible, and armament. In addition, he has requested total isolation from Russia in the economic field as an indispensable tool to weaken it.

“We live in constant atrocity,” he explained. Andriy Sadovyi, Mayor of Lviv, the city in western Ukraine relatively close to the Polish border where both internally displaced persons and those who intend to leave the country crowd. “They destroy life, we experience it first-hand in all the people who arrive”, the mayor has abounded to add: “Russia must be completely isolated”. For the mayor, the sanctions applied are important but there is still the possibility of further strangling the Russian economy until leaving it without a loophole. “I sincerely believe in our common victory”, added the mayor, heard by many European colleagues.