The invaders destroyed a historical building of the 19th century in Mariupol

In Mariupol, which was temporarily captured by the Russian military, a historical building of the 19th century – the Palace of Culture “Molodizhny” – was destroyed.

This was reported by the Mariupol City Council.

It is noted that during massive enemy shelling last year, hundreds of citizens hid in this palace of culture. Now this historical building has been destroyed.

The Palace of Culture “Molodizhny” is one of the landmarks of Mariupol, built in the 19th century with the funds of the Italian Tomaso family. Before the First World War, the Continental Hotel operated here with a restaurant, a performance hall, a printing house and a shop. Then there was the Palace of Labor and the Palace of Culture “Azovstal”, – the city council reminded.

In 2010, this historic building turned into the “Molodizhny” Palace of Culture, and in 2019, a decision was made to create the “Hotel Continental” Center for Contemporary Art. There were theater studios, children’s clubs, and events within the framework of the Gogolfest festival.

As reported, Russia’s aggression caused one of the biggest humanitarian disasters in Mariupol. The city was almost 90% destroyed as a result of enemy shelling.

The invaders are turning Mariupol and the surrounding villages into a military-logistics hub for the Russian army.

Russian occupying forces attacked the city of Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region with multiple rocket launchers. This was reported by the head of the Donetsk regional administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko.

Kirylenko reported that Russian troops shelled one of the city’s residential quarters.

“The Russians struck a residential area. The local school, apartment buildings and private houses are on fire,” he wrote.

According to him, so far no information has been received about the dead and injured.

It is noted that this is the second shelling of Chasovoy Yar today. In the morning, the occupiers shelled the city with artillery for an hour and a half.

As a result of the morning shelling, 2 people died, 5 more were injured and hospitalized.

A few hours ago, Russian troops shelled the Kherson region. As a result of the shelling, two women were killed, and three more people were wounded.

The occupiers destroyed the fire station in one of the front-line settlements with shelling.

In Mariupol, dozens of high-rise buildings are turning into ruins. They are actually being wiped off the face of the earth. The Mariupol City Council informs about this. Among them is the building at 101 Nakhimova Avenue.

The occupiers will not be able to shell Mariupol during the blockade. They continue the destruction so as not to leave a single brick of the Ukrainian city. Meanwhile, people are left without their native homes, where they were once happy.

“But the occupiers cannot defeat our unity! We will return home and rebuild Mariupol under the banner of freedom,” the message reads.

The Russian occupiers in the temporarily captured city of Mariupol, Donetsk region, destroyed more than 100,000 apartments by dismantling them. The ongoing construction is of questionable quality. The new apartments are in fact worse than the economy option. On January 27, Petro Andryushchenko, adviser to the Mariupol city chairman, told about this.

“The latest urban trend is that developers come from Moscow, who have already received approval for construction at the expense of the federal budget, and for bribes to local tsars and local collaborators, completely intact houses, slightly damaged, which could be repaired, are added to the lists of buildings to be demolished , in certain parts of the city, in particular in the Primorsky district. And, unfortunately, they have already begun dismantling such buildings, leaving people on the streets,” he said.

Andryushchenko confirmed that the “grandiose construction” of Mariupol is reported in the Russian mass media almost every day. Trumpets and that’s all.

“You can blow the trumpet ad infinitum. We can talk about numbers, about the fact that a total of 535 apartment keys were handed over to the residents of Mariupol during this time, and during this same time we can say that more than 100,000 apartments have been destroyed by dismantling. In fact, these numbers say more than anything about what is happening in Mariupol – after all, the restoration, the Russian construction or the final destruction of the city as it was. If we talk about the quality of construction, then the quality of housing that these lucky people received is difficult to call even an economy option,” said the chairman’s adviser.

According to his information, after receiving the keys, people can move in no earlier than in 2-3 months.

“Because all this time, the shortcomings of such a beautiful, new, Russian-promoted housing are being eliminated. Because it is very badly done and the defects are continuous – the pipes burst, the neighbors are flooded, because this is the quality of the repair. Instead of wallpaper or tiles, there are solid plastic panels of low quality everywhere to create an imitation. What can we say if even residents who move into new apartments are prohibited from renting and posting on social networks the housing as it is, in what condition, from the moment they move into their own new housing,” concluded Petro Andryushchenko.

On Thursday, January 26, four civilians were killed and seven more were injured in Donetsk region as a result of shelling by the Russian occupiers.

This was announced by the head of the Donetsk regional military administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko.

According to him, as a result of the invaders’ actions, three people died in Paraskoviivka and one person in Velika Novosilka.

In total, since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine in Donetsk region, 1,330 people have died, and another 2,912 have been injured. However, it is impossible to establish the exact number of victims in Mariupol and Volnovas.

On January 27, the Russian occupiers shelled Chasiv Yar in Donetsk region twice a day. In particular, the occupiers damaged residential buildings and other buildings. And in the evening, as a result of shelling, fires broke out in the city.

In the temporarily occupied territories, children have the hardest time. Especially for schoolchildren, whose thoughts and consciousness are just forming. It would seem that even the strongest can “break” in months of occupation. But no. Even children manage to resist the Russian propaganda machine that works in educational institutions. A high school student from one of the local schools in Starobilsk, Luhansk region, told about “order” in schools, “important conversations”, overdue ice cream and threats from teachers.

Monday was the most difficult day for schoolchildren who, after 11 months of occupation, can still distinguish between “black and white”. It is on this day that the real rush of the Russian study program begins in the morning.

“At 8 o’clock in the morning, you had to come to school for the general lineup, where everyone listened to the anthem of Russia and the so-called “Luhansk People’s Republic.” Can you imagine? Schoolchildren and teachers are standing, these tricolors and their cursed coats of arms are hanging everywhere, and the “ode” to Russia is being heard,” says Olesya.

Then everyone started the same lesson, which was called “conversations about important things.” It is not difficult to guess what they were talking about.

“The class teacher talked about the history of Russia already in his interpretation, about informational “hygiene”, about the breakthrough of the blockade of Leningrad, about Russian volunteers, about holidays of the Russian Federation, symbols of Russia. The most absurd was the thinking of these teachers, who are sure that “Russia is here forever.” They said that we are Russia. It’s impossible to just listen,” the girl recalls.

The high school student also added that during these lessons, her younger brother was forced to paint paper palms in the colors of the Russian flag, and then take pictures.

It was forbidden to miss these lessons. Every time someone was absent, he had to go to the director and write an explanatory letter about it:

“I missed these events many times. Personally, I did not write explanatory notes, but the class leader and the director repeatedly threatened us that our parents could be prosecuted. But nothing like that happened.”

School “outside politics”

Despite all this, the school management and the teachers themselves said that the school is an allegedly apolitical environment. But in practice, everything was not like that.

At the last event, dedicated to the “day of symbols of the Luhansk People’s Republic”, a video of Russian soldiers loading shells into tanks was shown in the background of children reciting poems.

“Of course it was a scandal, because they crossed all limits. We just laughed about it. Then the teachers gathered us and began to read. They screamed, saying, if we don’t consider Starobilsk a city of the “LPR”, then why don’t we go to Ukraine. It got to the point that I was accused of allegedly studying at a Ukrainian school and they know about it,” Olesya recalls.

Sister

These are not the only unpleasant conversations with the school administration. All the while, the school principal, who was one of the first to go to work with the collaborators, asked the younger brother of the high school student where their older sister was.

“The fact is that our sister is a public figure. Of course, since the beginning of the war, she left the occupied territory. Therefore, the director was constantly trying to learn about her and her work. Although my sister didn’t study at our school and they don’t know each other personally, to ask such things about her,” notes Olesya.

At the same time, her class teacher asked her the same questions:

“I tell her that my sister has left and cannot work at that job in any way. But every time she started a conversation about her, she tried to find out something. I even asked my mother. But the mother immediately told her: “Why do you need this information if my eldest daughter does not know you and was not a graduate of this educational institution. For what purpose are you interested?”.

Security, a tank near the school, special passes

Since the beginning of the new academic year, the occupation authorities have introduced “new orders”. There was special security on the territory of all schools. They were not wearing military uniforms, but they had weapons.

They were admitted to the school only with special passes. On these cards were pasted the photo of the students, the surname, first name and patronymic, class and the name of the educational institution were written. At first they were checked, but later they stopped.

In approximately October 2022, the military stationed a tank 300 meters from the school where the heroine of our material studied.

“The military stood by him every day. It was strange that the muzzle of this tank was aimed directly at the school. What is it for? Some abnormal. After a month or a half, the tank was removed,” says the schoolgirl.

Before the New Year holidays, the occupiers surprised even more. They started hauling ice cream boxes to school for each class.

“Our class was given a white filling with strawberries. When I received my package, I saw that its use-by date had already expired – until 2021. It was a laugh,” the girl recalls.

Non-remote

During six months of studying according to the Russian program, schoolchildren managed to work even on the so-called distance learning program. But this remote control was too different from the one the children were used to. If before they received assignments on special platforms, had online lessons with teachers, could always write and ask teachers something at any time, then everything was different here.

“After they started arriving in Starobilsk, we were dismissed for distance learning. Well, how remote… Someone wrote homework on a piece of paper, hung it on the bulletin board in the school yard, and that was it.

No one even reported that there were any tasks. The Internet was turned off, their communication was very bad, so the teachers decided not to bother and only pretend the educational process was going on,” says Olesya.

There was also a quarantine for several weeks. But this time the task was written for two weeks on the last day before the quarantine.

Children’s protests

Neither the ban on the Ukrainian language, nor the Russian program, in which they try to “brainwash” schoolchildren, can eradicate from them what has grown so strongly – national consciousness and dignity. Even in such conditions, children do not give up. They are fighting. They fight as best they can.

In Olesya’s class, there is a boy whose parents cooperate with the authorities of the occupation authorities. As a sign of protest, he began to speak Ukrainian. He spoke Ukrainian everywhere.

“He was called to the director, taken to the “police” station. As they say, they held various “career guidance” conversations with him, but each time they let him go because his parents are collaborators. And he does not support the position of his parents. By itself. I admire him,” says the girl.

The heroine’s name has been changed for security reasons.