‘It’s like the USSR’: residents on life in Mariupol a year since Russian occupation
by Luke Harding in Kyiv from World news | The Guardian on (#6BSMM)
People tell Guardian of primitive' living standards, propaganda in schools and constant risk of arrest
The mood in Mariupol has changed dramatically", according to residents who thought Russia would stay forever but are now expecting a swift Ukrainian military offensive to recapture the city.
In a series of anonymous interviews with the Guardian, people said Mariupol had been transformed into a gloomy version of the Soviet Union since the last Ukrainian defenders holed up in the Azovstal steelworks surrendered to Russian troops a year ago.
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