Breaking News from Russia’s War in Ukraine: Mariupol Closed Over Cholera Fears

Video summary of the war Ukraine – Russia: June 6 11:35 (CNN Spanish) — Russia intensifies its attacks in eastern Ukraine, in the continuity of the war that began at the end of February and that, at least for now, it seems far from having a culmination horizon. Over the weekend, after a long time, it attacked Kyiv again, in what British intelligence said was an attempt to cut off Western access to weapons. See the latest news of the war that keeps the world in suspense: Mariupol “closes discreetly” for fear of cholera and “corpses everywhere”, according to an adviser to the mayor The city of Mariupol, occupied by the Russians, ” is closing quietly” amid deteriorating sanitary conditions and fears of a cholera outbreak, says an aide to the city’s mayor. “It seems that the occupiers have realized that there is such a challenge,” Petro Andriushchenko said on national television. “There is talk of quarantine. The city is shutting down quietly.” Andriushchenko, who is not in the city but has been a reliable conduit for information from the city, said it was “difficult to convey” how bleak Mariupol has become. “The city has really become one with corpses everywhere,” he said. “They are piled up. The occupants cannot afford to bury them even in mass graves. There is not enough capacity even for this.” CNN cannot independently confirm Andriushchenko’s claims. Cholera, an infection that causes acute diarrhoea, is “closely linked to inadequate access to clean water and sanitation facilities” and kills tens of thousands of people worldwide each year. The World Health Organization is also concerned about cholera in Mariupol and says it has prepositioned vaccinations in Dnipro. Dr Dorit Nitzan, WHO European Region Emergency Coordinator, visited Ukraine last month and said the hygiene situation in Mariupol was a “huge danger”. “We received information that there are actually swamps on the streets, and sewage and drinking water are mixing,” said Dr. Nitzan on May 17 in Kyiv. Andriushchenko said the natural sources of water in the city are dwindling as the warmer months arrive. She said that the Russian evacuations from the city had stopped, and that it is no longer possible to leave. “You can enter the city with a Mariupol residence permit. But it’s a one-way ticket, because you can’t leave.” “Of all the possible scenarios to fight the epidemic, in our opinion, Russia has chosen, as always, the most cynical: lock people in the city and leave everything as it is: whoever survives, survives.” Mariupol Deputy Mayor Serhiy Orlov, who is also not in the city, said Tuesday that he believes there are about 150,000 people left there out of a pre-invasion population of more than 400,000, and another 30,000 to 40,000 in the suburbs of the surroundings. Orlov claimed that the Russians had taken large amounts of medical supplies from Mariupol to the separatist city of Donetsk. Heavy fighting breaks out in battle for Severodonetsk Heavy fighting for control of the eastern Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk continues on Tuesday, with Russia using artillery, planes and helicopters in the area, according to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Two people were injured after Russian forces shelled a mining school in Lysychansk, which is located on strategic high ground across the Siverskyi Donets River from Severodonetsk, according to Serhiy Hayday, head of the Luhansk Region Military Administration. . Hayday said Russia was using “sabotage and reconnaissance groups” in the town of Bilohorivka, just west of Lisychansk and Severodonetsk. That town also sits on high ground along the Siverskyi Donets River, and was the site of a massive Ukrainian defeat from a Russian assault last month. On the outskirts of Severodonetsk, the Ukrainian army said that Russia was using “remote mining of the area in the direction of the offensive of our troops towards Rubizhne”. Ukrainian service members fire a shell from an M777 howitzer near a front line, as Russia’s attack on Ukraine continues, in Donetsk region, Ukraine June 6, 2022. (PHOTO: REUTERS/Stringer) Rodion Miroshnik , an official from the separatist, self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic, claimed on Telegram that nine civilians had been killed by Ukrainian shelling in the past day. On Monday night, Oleksandr Striuk, head of the Severodonetsk military administration, said there was “fierce fighting and street fighting”, and that the situation was “changing by the hour”. Further west, in the Donetsk region, the Ukrainian military said Russia was focusing its efforts on moving south from Izyum towards Sloviansk, where the front line has not moved much despite many weeks of heavy fighting. “The entire front line is under constant fire,” Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Military Administration of the Donetsk region, said on national television. He said that the Ukrainian forces were focused on defending the line, and that it was “inappropriate to talk about a counterattack at this time.” In the southern Zaporizhzhia region, authorities said fighting continued along the entire line of contact, but eased somewhat on Tuesday. In the Kherson region, the Ukrainian military said Russia was “concentrating its main efforts on improving its tactical position, maintaining occupied borders, and resupplying ammunition and fuel.” Officials said Russia had begun preparations “for the celebration of Russia Day in the region.” Russia celebrates its national holiday on June 12. And in the northern region of Sumy, authorities said Russian forces shelled the border town of Seredyna-Buda early Tuesday. At least six houses and a farm building were damaged, but no casualties were reported. Russia Sanctions 61 Other Americans, Including Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Russia has placed a further 61 US officials and top defense and media executives on its “exclusion list,” barring them from entering the country, it said Monday. the Russian Foreign Ministry. The list includes the heads of major defense companies, media platforms, rating agencies, and aircraft and shipbuilding companies, as well as individual officials from the US State Department. The Ministry said the sanctions were a response to the “increasing number of US sanctions against Russian political and public figures, as well as against representatives of domestic companies.” Among the US officials included in the list are Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Trade Representative Katherine Tai, and the head of the Sanctions Coordination Office, James O’Brien. A little background: In May, Russia banned a total of 963 US officials and personalities from entering the country, including President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken. That list included most senators and members of the US House of Representatives, former and current government officials, journalists, military personnel, advocates, citizens, and CEOs. Ukraine accuses IAEA chief of “lying” and legitimizing Russian occupation of Zaporizhia NPP Ukraine’s nuclear power operator on Tuesday accused the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of legitimizing Russia’s occupation of the plant plant in Zaporizhia, and “lying” by claiming that Ukraine asked him to travel to the plant. CNN has contacted the IAEA for comment. The general director, Rafael Mariano Grossi, affirmed this Tuesday that there is a “clear and present risk for security and safeguards” at the plant, and said that he was “actively working to agree, organize and lead an international mission led by the IAEA ” to visit her. “We consider this message from the head of the IAEA as another attempt to reach ZNPP by any means to legitimize the occupants’ stay there and indeed to approve all their actions,” Energoatom wrote on Telegram. Grossi wrote on Twitter that “Ukraine asked us, we will go there.” Energoatom said that “the Ukrainian side did not invite Grossi to visit ZNPP and had previously denied him such a visit, emphasizing that a visit to the plant will be possible only when our country regains control over it.” UN: Reports of alleged sexual abuse in Ukraine 1:15 The operator said that the loss of data transfer between the central and the IAEA had been caused by the Russian forces that cut the Internet connection. Energoatom said that “the information is stored on the server and will be transferred when Vodafone is switched on.” This comes as the Ukrainian mayor of Enerhodar, a Russian-occupied town neighboring the plant, says plant employees and their families are coming under increasing pressure. Mayor Dmytro Orlov, who is not in Enerhodar, said the situation “is getting more and more difficult.” “There has been no mobile communication or Internet for almost a week, so it is difficult to control the current situation,” he said. “During the last three weeks there have been mass kidnappings, mass robberies and massive pressure on the population, which has a pro-Ukrainian opinion.” CNN cannot independently verify his claims. “Ukrainian personnel are working at the plant,” he said. “Military personnel and observers from Rosatom” — the Russian nuclear operator — “have been rotated at the nuclear power plant.”