The head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavel Kirilenko said that, according to preliminary data, up to 22 thousand people were killed in Mariupol. He stated this CNN.
“Now we are talking about 20-22 thousand killed in Mariupol,” Kirilenko said, adding that a severe situation in the city, which is located in the siege and blockade, makes it difficult to “comment” by the number of victims.
At the same time, CNN notes that independent estimates of the number of those who died in Mariupol are not.