Mariupol residents reject Russian stories about the city

“The things they show on Russian television are fairy tales for fools. The most of Mariupol still lies in ruins,” says John, who lives in the Russian-occupied Mariupol. As we revenged the Russian government, we changed its name.

“They make the facades of buildings on the main streets, where they brought the cameras they bring to the cameras. But many people still live in half-destroyed apartments with walls.

This is more than three years Mariupol was taken by Russian forces After a cruel siege and indefinite bombing – the main point in the first months of Ukraine in the first months of Russia.

Thousands were killed and UN Estimated 90% of residential buildings were damaged or destroyed.

In recent months, several Russian supporters have taken a picture of a bright city where videos and reels are repaired and life is repaired and life is normal.

However, the BBC, half a person – some living in Mariupol, others, others, others who fled after the occupied time, bring together the real scenery as in the city.

“There are many things floating around,” he said, 66-year-old Olha Onyshko, who fled from Mariupol and now lives in Ternopil of Ukraine.

“We had a beautiful city.

Mariupol also faces heavy water shortages.

“Water or water for two days, then for three days. We keep the water dish in the water. The color of the water is so yellow, but we are afraid of boiling it,” he said.

Some even said the water was like “Coca Cola”.

Serhii Orlov, who called the Deputy Mayor of Mariupol, said that Siversi Donets-Donbas channel was injured in the city during the war.

“Only a barn water was given water by giving Mariupol. It would last for about a year and a half for the existing population. The occupation lasted longer.

Often the electricity is expensive, the food is expensive and drugs are scarce, residents tell us.

“The main drugs are not available. Diabetics are struggling to get insulin in time and are crazy,” he says James.

The BBC appealed to the Russian leadership to respond to the Russian leadership in the Russian leadership and the Russian leadership was not an alternative source for water. We have no answer so far.

Despite the difficulties, the most difficult part of living in the city, residents say that Ukrainian children are watching their teaching at school.

Andrii Kozhushyna, a year later, studied at a university in Mariupol. Now he ran to Dnipro.

“Children teach false information and propaganda. For example, all of the school textbooks, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhzhia, Kharkiv, Odesa, Crimea and even Dnipropetrovsk districts are part of Russia,” Andrii.

The students also described the special classes entitled “Negotiations on important things” about Russia’s liberation of Russian-speaking people from Nazis in 2022.

“Teachers who refused to take these classes are intimidated or fired. This reprograms the mind of our children,” says Mariupol resident.

During the celebrations of two Victory Day in May, the traditions of Mariupol from the central square of Mariupol participating in military uniforms and adults – Ukraine’s traditions that Ukraine are watching in the occupied territories now. Mariupol washed with the colors of the Russian flag – red, blue and white.

However, some Ukrainians have confidential resistance to Russia, and the Ukrainian blue and yellow colors are stuck in the walls, as well as posts with messages such as “Freedom Mariupol” and “Mariupol Ukraine”.

James and John, members of both resistant groups were Andrii when he lived in the city.

“Messages are designed as moral support for our people, let them know that the resistance is alive,” he says James.

Their main goal is to collect intelligence for Ukrainian servicemen.

“I am informed about Russian military actions.

Sometimes resistance groups also try to sabotage civilian or military operations. Mariupola railway line was broken for at least twice, the signal box was fired by activists.

This is a risky job. Andrii said he had to leave when he understood the exposure.

“Perhaps a neighbor was confused to me. But I saw that a soldier who was in a store while taking bread in a store, I saw that I asked who he was a soldier who was the man who was the man who was.”

He immediately left, Mariupol had passed the inspections, and then before many cities and Belarus before entering the north.

Every day is a problem for those in the city yet.

“Wipe your messages every day because your phone can be checked in checkpoints. If your phone is shot, you are afraid to call your friends in Ukraine,” James says.

“A man of a neighboring house was arrested immediately from the street, because someone reportedly transferred information to the Ukrainian servicemen. Your life is like a movie – permanent tension, fear, fear, distrust.”

While negotiations continue between Ukraine and Russia, there are suggestions that we need to compromise the lands in exchange for a peace agreement in Ukraine and abroad.

“A” territory “with Russia will be betrayed. There will be a dream. Every day, it is risking every day to inform Ukraine every day, so some diplomats will sign on a piece of paper “will hand over”. “John said.

“We do not want peace in any cost.” We want freedom. “

Additional Report by Imogen Anderson, Anastasiia Levchenko, Volodymyr Lozhko and Sanjay