Last Update: March 08, 2023, 15:42 IST
Drone footage shows a city in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region reduced to rubble. (Credits: Twitter / Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine)
Marinka looks completely wiped out while the remains of houses are surrounded by rubble as a result of repeated attacks
A year into the Russian war in Ukraine, several cities have been razed to the ground, along with hundreds of casualties on both sides. Many lives have been lost, people are running from their homes, pets have been killed and infrastructure has been destroyed.
Aerial photos of the destroyed Marinka in Donetsk show how Russia’s invasion has turned the Ukrainian city into a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Scorched earth, charred trees and collapsed buildings are visible in dystopian images released by Ukraine’s foreign ministry.
Marinka, located about 80 miles from Bakhmut, has recently found itself at the center of a conflict between Russia and Ukraine. According to the foreign ministry, drone visuals show the city reduced to ruins with around 10,000 people.
The city looks completely desolate while the remains of houses are surrounded by rubble as a result of repeated attacks.
“Ukrainian Marinka in the Donetsk region. It used to be home to about 10,000 people. It used to be a peaceful town. It used to be until Russia’s war criminals razed it to the ground. To see Zoom in to make sure nothing is missed,” the ministry said on Twitter.
Earlier in February, video footage shot from a drone showed how fierce fighting in Marinka left no buildings unscathed.
Many are barely recognizable as buildings. Shell-fire has also made matches of the city’s trees – many of them ripped at the trunk.
Marinka police chief Artem Shus said every building in the city was damaged, according to the Associated Press.
Apart from the soldiers, the city has been completely evacuated as there is no way for the civilian population to live there.
Donetsk, the center of Ukraine’s industrial heartland of Donbass, has been wracked by fighting since the Moscow-backed separatist insurgency broke out in April 2014.
However, four months later, it was retaken by the Ukrainian military. But, when the Russia–Ukraine conflict started in February 2022, all buildings and trees in the city were destroyed, leaving the city uninhabitable.
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