Following my re-visits to Crimea & Donbass, I've finally found the time to stitch together some of my footage from Mariupol!
The city is brimming with life & construction. This short clip is a taste of what I saw in my recent visit, with a couple of clips from visits last year & late 2022.
I'll be putting together more videos from my last visit—there is so much construction that's happened since I visited last year. I was astonished.
For a city "destroyed" (as Western mouthpieces claim), Mariupol is pulsing with life.
I know. Which is why I feel that videos like this are important to share. Otherwise this would just be a random collection of clips from an ordinary city going about its normal daily life. It would hardly be anything worth posting about.
As Eva Bartlett points out, the city was never “a pile of rubble”, only certain parts were badly damaged where heavy fighting took place because Nazis were holed up in apartment buildings, schools and hospitals. And they are rebuilding there very fast.
There are towns in the Donbass that look like what they think Mariupol looks like, and those are the ones that were on the frontline for over eight years like Marinka, Avdeyevka, etc. and it’s because both sides have been shelling them.
I know. Which is why I feel that videos like this are important to share. Otherwise this would just be a random collection of clips from an ordinary city going about its normal daily life. It would hardly be anything worth posting about.
As Eva Bartlett points out, the city was never “a pile of rubble”, only certain parts were badly damaged where heavy fighting took place because Nazis were holed up in apartment buildings, schools and hospitals. And they are rebuilding there very fast.
There are towns in the Donbass that look like what they think Mariupol looks like, and those are the ones that were on the frontline for over eight years like Marinka, Avdeyevka, etc. and it’s because both sides have been shelling them.