Stricken Mariupol ’s war-battered streets are littered with corpses and locals have been forced to dig a mass grave whilst under fire.
As many as 1,200 have died during a brutal nine-day siege leaving more than 200,000 running out of water and food, desperate for evacuation.
Grim images have emerged of a 25 metres long long trench being filled with bodies, wrapped in carpets and sacking.