“The city was vulnerable. We didn’t have enough tanks and artillery to hold back the aggressors,” Mayor Khotlubei says. “Now we’re an impregnable fortress.”
Mariupol
On Eastern Ukraine’s Front Lines, Strategic, Besieged Mariupol Faces Economic Destruction
To the region’s workers and miners, who have seen living standards drop, Russia looks familiar and welcoming, while the EU is foreign and threatening.
