ABOUT 10,000 Ukrainian civiliansmany elderly and disabled people are on the brink of their existence, in appalling conditions, in and around the besieged city. Bahamutas announced today International Committee of the Red Cross (ICES).

According to him, several thousand people remained in the city. Umar Khan The ICRC, which is helping them in the last days.

“The civilians who remained there live in very difficult conditions, spending almost whole days in shelters due to heavy shelling,” he said at a press briefing in Geneva via video link with Dnieper Ukraine. “All you see are people who have reached the limit of their existence, their survival and their endurance.”

Khan said he was shocked at the extent of the destruction he saw. “Houses are flattened by army fire, roofs are blown off, residential buildings are riddled with holes… The threat of shell and bomb explosions is constant, and some people continue to live in shelters, trying to survive this fierce fighting.”