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Mariupol holds out while EU calls for the opening of humanitarian corridors

Family members are seen in a street near residential buildings damaged during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine April 22, 2022. © Alexander Ermochenko, Reuters

In Mariupol, a strategic city located on the sea of Azov under siege by the Russian army, satellite images have raised fears of massive civilian massacres, even greater than in the ones found in Bucha, where the UN has "documented the killing of 50 civilians". For its part, the EU has called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to guarantee humanitarian corridors on the occasion of Orthodox Easter.

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