Neighbors Mariupol denied Russian stories about the city

“Those who are showing Russian television are fairy stupid tales. MARARIPOL Most are still in residues,” says John, a Ukrainian in the Russian occupied Mariupol. We have changed his name as he reprisals Russian authorities.

“The façades of the main street buildings are being fixed.

Since three years have passed since Mariupol took Russian forces After the indiscriminated siege and bombing – a key moment in the early months of the first months of Russia in Ukrainian.

Thousands were killed, and The UN estimated 90% of the residence buildings were ruined or destroyed.

In recent months, video and coils of various Russian actors have painted the photo of the bright cities where the damaged structures were fixed and where life has lasted to normal.

But BBC has spoken more than half a dozen. Some mariupols still live, others fled after the occupation fled. Life is like in the city.

“They’re floating around,” says he escaped from Mariupol last 66-year olha Onyshkok last year and now lives in the Ukraine’s Ternopil.

“I wouldn’t say (Russian authorities). It is a central square. There are also buildings rebuilt buildings. And they were not distinguished, drains and trucks,” he added.

Mariupol is also in front of serious water shortages.

“One day or two is flushed, then it is not three days. The aquatic color is so yellow. It is scary after cooking,” James says that another name has changed.

Some also say that water is “Coca Cola”.

Serhii Orlov calls out the deputy Mayor of Marijuupol, says Siverskyi Donbas channel, that he was damaged during the city.

“The only reservoir was supplied with water. For the current population, which would last a year and a half. In fact, the occupation does not drink water at all.

There are often power cuts, food is expensive and medicines are scarce, the neighbors tell us.

“Basic medicines are unavailable. Diabetics fight insulin in time, and it’s expensive,” says James.

BBC has reached the Russian Administration of Mariupol to whether they found a shortage of scarcity and water. We have not got any answers so far.

Despite the difficulties, the most difficult to live in the city, the residents say that Ukrainian children are teaching what they are teaching at school.

Andrii Kozhushyna studied at Mariupol University for a year after occupied. Now he fled to Dnipro.

“Children are teaching false information and propaganda. For example, the school textbooks are also in the regions of Donetsk, Khherarizhzhia, Kherson, Odesa, Crimea and Dnipropetrovsk,” says Andrii.

The students also described special lessons called “Interviews on Important Things”, Students teach Russian population in 2022 of these Nazis regions.

“The teacher who refuses to take these lessons are fears or fired. Our children’s minds are being rescheduled,” says John, a resident Mariupol.

In World War I, in May, Mariupol’s Central Squares showed children and adults dressed in the military outfits involved in Mariupol’s central and performances. Mariupol bathed in the colors of the Russian flag – red, blue and white.

But some Ukrainians make a secret resistance against Russia, and the blue Ukrainian blue and yellow colors throw in the walls, and brochures also pasted messages like “Askate Mariopol” and “Mariupol is Ukraine.”

James and John are members of resistance groups, as he lived in the city as he was Andrii.

“The message means as a moral support for our people, to inform you that resistance is alive,” says James.

Their main goal is to gather intelligence for the Ukrainian military.

“I document information about Russian military movements. They are gathering weapons, where they are entering the soldiers, in our industrial areas. I hide the photos until the secure channels transmitted to Ukrainian intelligence,” says James.

From time to time, resistance teams also try to sabotage civil or military operations. At least twice, the railway was interrupted to Mariupol because it was on fire through signage box activists.

It’s a dangerous job. Andrii said he was visible when he realized he left.

“Maybe a neighbor kicked me. But when I buy bread in the store, I saw a soldier when I showed my picture to the cashier, who was wondering who he was,” he said.

He immediately left Mariupol’s controllers and then traveling through many Russian cities, and through Belarus, before entering the north of Ukraine.

For those in the city, each day is a challenge.

“You delete your messages every day because your phone can be verified in checkpoints. If your friend call Ukraine you are afraid that your phone touches,” says James.

“A person in a house nearby arrested the street because he allegedly reporting information to Ukrainian military. Your life is like a movie: constantly tension, fear, distrust.”

As the lectures follow between Ukraine and Russia, Ukraina and external suggestions have been given to a peace agreement.

“It will be a betrayal to” give the territory “for danger. To endanger every day, it is not information that information will not be able to sign the role that will give us some diplomats”, says John.

“We don’t want any costs of peace.” We want release. “

Imogen Anderson, Anastasiia Levchenko, Volodymyr Lozhko and Sanjay Gangly