‘I was nearly shot for not knowing Ukrainian’: Mariupol residents on the horrors of war and the city’s restoration

fighting in Mariupol

A report from a Russian city that endured fierce battles and is now coming back to life.

Active fighting in Mariupol began on February 24, 2022 – the first day of Russia’s military operation. It ended in late May, when the last fighters of the neo-Nazi battalion ‘Azov’, who were holding a line of defense at the Azovstal plant, finally surrendered.

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