On April 18, russian troops are going to close Mariupol to entry and exit and ban civilians for a week to filter out all men.
They want to mobilize some of them, said Mariupol Mayor's Adviser Petro Andryushchenko.
According to his words, the men will be taken to Novoazovsk, from where some will be sent to the russian occupation corps, and the other part - to clear the blockages. Some may face arrest.
“The filtration procedure has gained maximum momentum. In filtration camps and checkpoints, one hundred percent of men after cruelties (interrogation, gadget checking, body examination) are separated from others and conduct separate interrogations, including staging of execution. In general, we can say that from 5 to 10 percent is not filtered and then exported to Dokuchaevsk and Donetsk. Their future is unknown at this time," Andryushchenko wrote.
According to him, the occupiers are going to leave only women and men in the city to serve current needs.
“We attribute this to the impossibility of keeping the civilian population in the city, even in the minimum living conditions," the mayor's adviser added.
On April 15, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with the leaders of the power unit to discuss Mariupol.
And the commander of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade, Major Serhiy Volyna, called on the authorities to unblock Mariupol as soon as possible, either militarily or politically.