Russian-backed separatists on road to Mariupol
Published Date: 4/13/2022
Source: AP Archive
(8 Apr 2022) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ++PLEASE NOTE: AP IS WORKING IN MARIUPOL AS PART OF MEDIA FACILITY ORGANISED BY THE SEPARATIST LEADERSHIP OF DONETSK++ ASSOCIATED PRESS Mariupol - 7 April 2022 1. Wide of checkpoint, anti-tank obstacles on road to Mariupol 2. Close up of anti-tank obstacles 3. Various of Russia-backed separatists on tank, guns 4. Separatist with gun smoking 5. Various of separatists on tank 6. Separatists waving to cars passing by 7. Wide of checkpoint STORYLINE: Russian backed separatists assembled on tanks at a checkpoint on road to the besieged city of Mariupol on Thursday. Some separatists mounted on top of tanks while others stood on the road and waved to passing vehicles. The mayor of the besieged port city of Mariupol put the number of civilians killed there during weeks of Russian bombardment and street fighting at more than 5,000 Wednesday, including 210 children. Vadym Boichenko said Russian forces bombed hospitals, including one where 50 people burned to death. Boichenko said more than 90% of the city’s infrastructure has been destroyed. The attacks on the strategic southern city on the Sea of Azov have cut off food, water, fuel and medicine and pulverized homes and businesses. British defense officials said 160,000 people remained trapped in the city, which had a prewar population of 430,000. A humanitarian relief convoy accompanied by the Red Cross has been trying for days without success to get into the city. Russian forces are fighting street by street to capture the city; doing so would allow Russia to secure a land corridor to the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow seized from Ukraine in 2014. Russian forces are strangling the city on the Sea of Azov as they press forward in their war that began February 24. Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine had accused Ukrainian forces of setting fire to a Ukrainian naval vessel in Mariupol on Wednesday as “provocation” to “discredit the Russian military.” =========================================================== Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: [email protected] (ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/f02af40431134d27b2395dce6277249c