German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock accused Moscow of wanting to destroy the Ukrainian city of Mariupol and made another attempt to call Russia to humanity.
She said this in a statement on the situation in Mariupol on March 31.
"In my opinion, Russia is determined to conquer the city or destroy it, despite the human cost," the German foreign minister said
According to her, despite the fact that the terrible news remains unchanged from day to day, the people, the situation in the Ukrainian city should not be allowed to be thought less of, to lose sight of it.
More than 100,000 civilians are still trapped in Mariupol - including children, women, men, old people; for weeks they have been experiencing an almost unbelievable nightmare without electricity, without water, without heating in the city, constantly bombed by Russian bombs, where rockets and grenades fall, and which is compared to the ground," said the minister.
"The attacks must stop immediately. International humanitarian law must be respected. Therefore, I call on the Russian government to provide safe corridors for the voluntary evacuation of civilians and to deliver humanitarian aid to those who cannot or do not want to leave," Berbock urged Moscow authorities.
The German official's words seem to be confirmed by witnesses who managed to escape from Mariupol.
"We were thinking about how to leave. We had one ghost car. Nine people and a dog to get out. And minimal chance of reaching the garage. It was in the school district, and there was gunfire of all kinds. The occupants were not shy at all. They picked a square on the ground and smashed it to rubble.
The same high-rise building was hit dozens of times. I swear, there was never any of our troops there. Not one. There were civilians who hoped the bombing would end and they would go out to get water or cook over a fire. About a dozen shells flew into these houses. The Russians were hitting hard. We in the basement listened to these sounds and gasped in horror. They sounded like slaps. It was as if the houses were being hit with a huge scourge," wrote one of those who escaped from Mariupol.
