Putin has reserved his fiercest atrocities for Mariupol, a mostly Russian-speaking port of 431,000 people (of Ukrainian, Russian, Greek, and Armenian descent) which has been under siege for weeks. Its residents live in “apocalyptic conditions”, according to the Red Cross, and are under constant shelling without food, water, power, and heat. Russians hav…
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