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Save your Russhist propaganda.
95% of Mariople was destroyed, tens of thousands of civilians killed by Russian invasion, hundreds of thousands Ukranians fled the city and only 30% came back. Estimates are that at current rates of rebuilding it will take 20+ years to get it back to capacity.
It has been just over three years since Russia captured Mariupol. Over that period, Russian authorities have relentlessly endeavored to paint a picture of successful post-war reconstruction. State-sponsored media airs glossy reports of new housing projects, while the facades of buildings gutted...
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That claim about returning residents is a pure lie,” she says. “
The city is full of destroyed private houses where nothing is being done and no one lives. The same goes for the apartment buildings that were burned out. You can see by the windows that they're empty. I’ve seen so many of them in the city center, on Prospekt Mira. In the buildings that survived, there are many empty apartments or apartments being rented by migrants. I know one migrant who is planning a sham marriage to get citizenship, build a house, and stay in Mariupol forever.”
The problem, Maria explains, is that the repairs are usually only facade-deep. “The city is in a pretty wrapper. I once struck up a conversation with a construction foreman, and he told me they were redoing the facade and the building entrances, plus the windows, doors, and utilities. But inside the apartments, the residents have to do the repairs themselves — and this is in a building that was completely gutted by fire.”
In the old city center,
many buildings are painted on the outside but are empty husks within. At night, their windows are dark. Sometimes, Lilya passes along from her contacts still in the city, the floors inside have simply collapsed. “Mariupol is a very large and sprawling city. They’ve turned the main central streets into a storefront.
They painted the facades. But step a couple of houses back, and everything is bombed-out and burned.”
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