From Ashes to Ashes: An Emissary From Mariupol Pleads for Help for Those Left Behind

‘Many people are huddled together in basements with no food, no heat, no water … people who manage to leave are doing so with nothing, just their passport, not looking back.’

Outside a Mariupol maternity hospital that was damaged by shelling March 9, 2022. AP/Evgeniy Maloletka, file

The extent of Russia’s physical destruction of the strategic Ukrainian city of Mariupol, on the north Sea of Azov coast, will be known well before that of the human toll, which as recounted by the head of that city’s Chabad congregation, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Cohen, is possibly even worse.

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