No humanitarian aid has reached Mariupol. City completely cut off

"UKRAINSKA PRAVDA - THURSDAY, 10 MARCH 2022, 13:43

Mariupol remains blockaded. People cannot be evacuated. Humanitarian aid cannot reach the city.

Source: Iryna Vereshchuk, Minister for the reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories, as quoted by Ukrinform in a commentary by Ukrainian TV channels

Vereshchuk said: "Mariupol remains completely blocked both in terms of the evacuation of people and for humanitarian aid.

There is fighting there now between Orekhovo and Polohy. Our humanitarian aid cargo is still in Zaporizhzhya, and this is the fourth day that we cannot deliver water, necessary medicines and food"."

Background: On 10 March, Russian occupation forces carried out a fresh air raid on Mariupol in the Donetsk region.

At around 4:30 p.m. on 9 March, the invaders dropped several powerful bombs from aircraft on a children's hospital and maternity hospital in Mariupol.