Vladimir Putin's forces have dumped the bodies of dozens of Ukrainian civilians in a supermarket in Mariupol and left them to rot, it has emerged.
Bodies have been strewn across the city, causing the soil to get poisoned, eventually getting into underground water and into rivers and the sea.
Russian forces have since washed the corpses above ground in an attempt to restore running water to the ruined city, according to Petro Andryushchenko, the Mariupol mayor’s adviser.