Mariupol faces partial power outage following several explosions heard in city
Explosions rang out in temporarily occupied Mariupol overnight on July 16, power cuts are reported in some city areas, Mariupol Mayor's advisor Petro Andriushchenko reported on Telegram.
He wrote about at least five explosions rocking the occupied city.
"City is attacked. At least two strikes recorded between 'Nevsky' and Agrobaza near Mangush," Andryushchenko said.
"The regular air defense systems 'knocked everything down'. Due to the attacks' type, first the air defense base was exposed, and then the air defense systems themselves were targeted."
There are also reports of the probable hit or debris fall near Bilosarayska Kosa and Melekine in Mariupol district.
The electricity supply in the city partially disappeared after the attack.
"The central district — Novoselivka faces total blackout," Andryushchenko added.
Mariupol occupation by Russian troops
After an almost three-month siege and bloody battles, Mariupol was occupied by Russian troops in May 2022. Before the start of the full-scale invasion, about 450,000 people lived in this port city. During the siege, half of the inhabitants left, tens of thousands died.
By the time in May, when the last Ukrainian defenders left the Azovstal Metallurgical Plant and surrendered as prisoners by order of the command, Mariupol had turned from a large industrial center into a ruin.
The Russian occupiers want to hide the traces of their crimes in captured Mariupol and show that they are "rebuilding" the city, but "reality is very different from propaganda," the Financial Times reported on February 8.
Russia used "deliberate starvation tactics" during its 85-day siege of Mariupol in early 2022, a war crime, The Guardian reported, citing new analysis submitted to the International Criminal Court.
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