INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Ukrainian authorities on Sunday accused Russian forces of bombing a school in the besieged city of Mariupol where some 400 people, including
women and children had been sheltering, and of deporting some residents to Russia.Mariupol has been one of the main targets of Moscow's
Russian shelling has hammered the eastern Ukrainian port for days, and the city has seen a near total communication blackout."Yesterday, the
Russian occupiers dropped bombs on an art school No 12," the city council said on messaging app Telegram on Sunday, adding that around 400
been destroyed, the council said in a statement
"Peaceful civilians are still under the rubble," it added.City authorities also claimed that some residents of Mariupol were being forcibly
Ukrainian passports and given a piece of paper that carries no legal weight and is not recognised by the entire civilized world," the city
council said.Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk regional administration, said that Russian forces had already deported more than a
thousand residents of Mariupol."The occupiers are sending the residents of Mariupol to filtration camps, checking their phones and seizing
(their) Ukrainian documents," he added, urging the international community to intervene."I appeal to the international community: put
pressure on Russia and its madman of a leader," he said on Facebook.Separately, Petro Andryushchenko, an adviser to Mariupol's mayor, said
