Podoliak: The death toll in Mariupol has reached tens of thousands

IRYNA BALACHUK - MONDAY, 2 MAY 2022, 17:18

Mykhailo Podoliak, adviser to the head of the Presidential Office, believes that no-one has brought as much pain to the Donbas as Russia, because the invaders have killed tens of thousands of people in Mariupol alone.

Source: Podoliak on Twitter

According to Podoliak: "In two months since the start of full-scale war, the number of deaths in Mariupol alone has reached tens of thousands. No-one has inflicted as much pain on the people of Donbas as the Russian Federation has since 2014 and especially today."

Details: He recalled that 27 civilians had been killed in Donbas in 2019, 8 in 2020 and 15 in 2021.

Background: Earlier, Mariupol mayor Vadym Boychenko said the Russians had killed more locals in the city than the Nazis did in World War II. According to him, more than twenty thousand people had been killed by the Russians in 2 months.