Each building is either burned or broken, according to a photographer who visited Mariupol. A theater used as a shelter was hit by a Russian air strike on March 16, killing about 300 people, according to authorities. The word “kids” had appeared in Russian with huge white letters on the ground outside in an attempt to repel an air strike. Photographer Max Clarke said it was “almost beyond description of how devastated this city is”. Image: Destroyed buildings in Mariupol. Photo: Max Clarke Image: “It’s hard to exaggerate how completely devastated the city is.” Photo: Max Clarke He told Sky News: “The sheer intensity of the bombings has taken people by surprise.” Disaster is “difficult to exaggerate” Asked how bad the situation is on the ground, Mr Clarke said: “It is difficult to exaggerate how completely devastated the city is. There is not a single building that is either unburned or unbreakable. “People are just hurt and dizzy. They live without electricity, food or heat. The temperature rose recently, but was below zero until last week. “Fires are still burning, people are cooking in wood-burning fires outside their shelters or in their bomb shelters. “There are no shops, banks, supplies, everything that has not been burned has been looted and whoever can leave has left. Image: A damaged tank. Photo: Max Clarke “There are still 100,000 people who can not or do not want to leave, who just have nothing and just stay with what they have in their basements and just go out to cook and occasionally get some light, but no I know what they see as the future. “ He added: “I have never seen disasters on such a scale.” “Freshly dug graves everywhere” Picture: Desolation in the besieged city. Photo: Max Clarke Image: “There is not a single building that is either unburned or unbreakable. Photo: Max Clarke Asked about reports of mass graves and corpses in the streets, Mr Clark said: “The corpses have been largely buried so far, but there are still some, we can certainly smell them in piles of rubble that are inaccessible. “There are dogs that feed on bone fragments, human bones, human fragments. There are freshly dug graves everywhere. “I have not seen these mass graves yet, but other photographers have. I have looked at their work and there are people buried in roadside trenches and only body parts are scattered. Burned vehicles and bombed vehicles with charred remains of their drivers. still there. “We saw a tanned body when we went in and the next day it was missing limbs and had various red, uncovered flesh because the dogs ate it all night. So it’s very damn.”
