Outbreaks of infectious diseases have begun in Mariupol due to mass burials in yards and bodies under rubble.
This was stated by Mayor Vadym Boychenko in an interview with the Ukrainian Air Force.
"Cholera, dysentery and other infectious diseases are already circulating in the city, but [the occupying power] is hiding it. The city was closed for quarantine. No one is released or admitted from there," he said, adding that there may be dozens of cholera patients in the city now, and their number will grow rapidly.
According to Boychenko, despite the lack of data from hospitals, the city has all the signs of an outbreak of cholera.
- Ukrainian authorities have repeatedly warned of the obvious risk of epidemics due to the lack of centralized water supply, sanitation, medicine, and mass burials. The occupiers did not comment on these statements.
- The risks of a large cholera outbreak in Mariupol on June 9 were reported by British intelligence.