90% of Mariupol's critical infrastructure has been damaged in one way or another. 60% of them are infrastructure that has received direct hits from either aircraft, MLRS, or flamethrowers.
The mayor of Mariupol Vadym Boychenko declared it at a briefing.
According to him, 40% of critical infrastructure will be impossible to restore.
At a briefing, city officials said the Russian military was doing everything possible to paralyze the city's life-support systems: utilities and machinery, power and water systems, and communications were destroyed.
In early March, Vadym Boychenko asked to prepare public transport for the evacuation of residents. While agreeing on evacuation routes, enemy artillery and aircraft destroyed all buses. There was no transport to take people out. Those who tried to escape from the besieged city, at the first checkpoint, the occupiers turned with the words "We have no command to release you from the city. Come back or we will shoot."
The city council says they have made a strategic food supply. But the russian army destroyed him. The occupiers knew where to aim, they did it purposefully, the representatives of the Mariupol authorities emphasized at the briefing.
"No one expected that there were enemies inside who would adjust the fire on key, critical infrastructure. Everything was precisely adjusted to precisely paralyze the city, immerse it in a vacuum of information and impose its information propaganda, which we constantly hear," Vadym Boychenko said.
According to him, this is the work of traitors from the OPZZh faction in the Mariupol City Council.
At the briefing, the mayor also appealed to the world community of investigative journalists and satellite operators to join the process of recording russia's crimes in Mariupol.
"We want everyone to unite today and understand that Bucha and Mariupol - we do not compare what is worse ... When Mariupol residents come to the controlled part of Ukraine, they say: if you want to imagine what hell is, well it exists. It is today in the city of Mariupol. And we want russia and russian troops and the main criminal, Vladimir Putin, to be punished for the hell they created," Boychenko said.
Ukrainian intelligence reported that 13 mobile crematoria to hide the bodies of dead civilians were noticed in Mariupol.
Authorities in the besieged city recorded 33.5 thousand citizens whom occupiers had forcibly deported to russia.