(5 May 2022)
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Mariupol - 5 May 2022
1. Various of shelled building s
2. Bulldozer unloading debris onto truck
3. People sweeping
4. Various of people carrying out restoration work on mock warship in park
5. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Denis (no surname given), volunteer:
"We are helping with this humanitarian mission to restore parks and monuments ahead of May 9 (Russian Victory Day) so that Mariupol citizens can mark this holiday."
6. People carrying out restoration work on mock warship
7. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Denis (no surname given), volunteer:
"In this park, we are now restoring the ship that is behind me. At the beginning of the park, memorials to the victims of fascism were restored and benches were painted. Also, a statue was erected of the 'granny' which marked going out to meet Russian forces with the victory banner, but it mistakenly turned out to be Ukrainian soldiers."
8. Statue of elderly lady near memorial
9. Damaged Mariupol Theatre building
10. Various of municipal workers installing Russian flag on pole
11. People on bicycles
12. Sign reading (Ukrainian) "I love Mariupol"
STORYLINE:
A clean up operation took place in the center of Mariupol on Thursday even as Ukrainian fighters held out against Russian troops in the city's pulverized steel plant.
The rest of the city is now under Russian control.
Municipal workers, as well as volunteers, were seen clearing debris near gutted, charred buildings, including the drama theatre where hundreds of people died when the Russian military bombed it in March.
Some workers were also seen putting a Russian flag on a tall utility pole.
One volunteer, Denis, said that he was helping clean up the city "so that Mariupol citizens can mark" Victory Day on Monday.
Victory Day is the biggest patriotic holiday on the Russian calendar, marking the Soviet Union's triumph over Nazi Germany.
Since the invasion began in February, Russia has been fighting to capture the strategic port city.
As the bloody battle continues, there is speculation that President Vladimir Putin wants to present the Russian people with a battlefield triumph — or announce an escalation of the war — in time for Victory Day.
The complete capture of the strategic port city would mark Russia's biggest success of the war yet.
Russia would need to seize Mariupol's sprawling Azovstal steelworks, the last pocket of resistance in a city which has largely been reduced to rubble over the past two months of the war.
Some 2,000 Ukrainian troops, by Russia's most recent estimate, remain holed up there.
A few hundred civilians were also believed to be trapped there as well.
Getting a full picture of the unfolding battle in the east has been difficult because airstrikes and artillery barrages have made it extremely dangerous for reporters to move around.
Both Ukraine and the Moscow-backed rebels fighting in the east also have introduced tight restrictions on reporting from the combat zone.
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