Ukraine claims Russian forces in Mariupol are burning corpses in mobile crematoriums

As Russian forces continue to earn backlash for allegedly perpetrating war crimes in Bucha after ims of civilian de bodies started surfacing, Mariupol City Council on Wednesday claimed that in wake of  Bucha killings, Russia's top leership ordered erication of all evidence of ir army's crimes in Mariupol. It furr claimed that Russian forces are burning deceased in mobile crematoriums in Mariupol. In a Telegram post dated April 6, Mariupol City Council claimed that y gar bodies of Mariupol people who were killed as a result of Russian invasion and burn m in mobile crematoriums.

death toll was estimated to be around 5,000 people a week ago, however, w tens of thousands of residents from Mariupol are likely to fall victim to occupiers owing to  catastrophic destruction and ferocious resistance, post furr re. City Council stated that this is why Russia is hesitant to grant Turkish mission and or measures to save and totally evacuate Mariupol. It also claimed that infiltration camps are used to identify and destroy all potential witnesses to occupiers' atrocities.

'Entire city has been converted into a death camp'

mayor of Mariupol, Vym Boychenko stated world has t seen scale of trdy like in Mariupol ever since Nazi concentration camps. He furr stated that ir entire city has been converted into a death camp and that Putin's aggression should be punished by rest of world.  precise number of Russian soldiers slain in Ukraine is yet to be revealed. So far, Russia's official figures have hovered around 500. However, Ukrainian military claims that number could be more than 15,000 people. Ukrainian ministration claims that Russian army is using mobile crematoriums to burn ir de soldiers.

Ukraine has launched a war crimes investigation

In meantime, after bodies of people were discovered scattered over streets in Bucha as Russian troops withdrew from areas around Kyiv, Ukraine has launched a war crimes investigation. Bucha and Irpin were formerly emblems of resistance to Russian invasion, but y are w associated with some of war's worst atrocities, according to BBC. Ukrainian police suggest that so far, 410 civilian bodies have been discovered in Kyiv area. However, Russia claims that photographs and videos are "a std performance" by Ukraine, but provides evidence supporting this claim.

Im: AP