🔴💣CLAMOROSO : REPORT DI RAI3, AMMETTE CHE SONO STATI GLI UCRAINI A BOMBARDARE LE PROPRIE CITTÀ‼️

And now an exclusive report from our envoy, Manuele Bonacosti, who managed to enter the Mariupol occupied a few hundred meters from the steel mill, symbol of the Ukrainian resistance. We went from the other side of the front, until we were left in a shade. Here, where the cars and military vehicles are marked with the Z of Zapad, or Russian West. This is Mariupol, or what is left of it. People go to get water and collect wood from the rubble. It will be used to make fire to cook, or to secure their damaged houses. This was Mariupol's theater. Hit on March 16, despite being full of civilians. In front of us, a military officer of the Republic of Donetsk interrogates a alleged witness, a resident of Mariupol who was near the theater during the bombing. The scene is shown in front of a Russian television crew. There was a blast, and everything collapsed. But in my opinion, the explosion occurred from the inside, for a bomb, because the walls fell outwards. Moreover, when we began to take out the injured and killed people, I saw that an old lady had numerous wounds caused by the splinters of a bomb. According to this reconstruction, filmed for the benefit of Russian viewers, the massacre would have been caused by an attack, just as stated by the Moscow authorities, who blamed the Azov Nationalist Battalion. The city authorities and numerous international sources claim that a Russian plane was used to bomb the theater. More than 130 people died in the theater massacre. But it is a partial fact. Ukrainian sources speak of 300 victims. The bodies, when we arrive, more than a month later, are still under the rubble. In this neighborhood of Mariupol lives Nina, an old lady who has a Swiss daughter. She wants to reach her, to be safe, and we will give her a passage to Donetsk. We meet her in the apartment where she lives with her family. They are all miraculously escaped from the bombs. Without light, without water, without food, we have lived like rats. The Ukrainian military put the gates of the red barracks in front of them, pointed to the troops where to put the fire points. We made them disappear, so we saved our house. Otherwise, we would probably be dead. Those of the nearby palace did not do it. And there they put an ovice on the roof, from which they fired repeatedly. Now there is nothing left of that palace. On February 24, Mariupol was closed. We were in a cage. There has never been a green corridor to take away children and the elderly. They blew up the railings. It was impossible to leave Mariupol. Donetsk, capital of the People's Republic of the Russian Donbass. It is April 16. A river of people is heading towards a structure of local civil protection, which is the task of providing documents and shelter for refugees. I come from Mariupol. We were taken by the buses of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Republic of Donetsk. But they let anyone go? Yes, but there are few buses. And where is it going? To Rostov, in Russia. And then I will reach my daughter, in Zurich. We hid in the cellars. We slept on the floor in the dust. I am 76 years old. For 50 years, my husband and I have saved to rent the apartment. And now there is only ashes everywhere. The Azov battalion with the tanks fired on my house. Can you imagine? Are you sure it was the Azov battalion? Could it have been the Russian troops? No, no, they had the Ukrainian flag on their uniform. From Mariupol to Donetsk, tens of thousands of people have arrived so far. Ukrainian sources have spoken of deportations. We, who have often moved with the military, are alone today. Our interpreter, Cristina, explains to everyone that we work for the Italian public TV. We only own the clothes we are wearing. Ukraine has stated that Russia is deporting people from Mariupol. But stop it! No one has deported us. We are just leaving hell. We have people buried under every house. There are crosses in all the streets. They put artillery between the residential buildings, even though it said children on the walls. They used us as a human shield. There was a Ukrainian tank. He shot at the house and then moved. At that point, a shot came from the Russians. My house was hit three times. Everything was shaking. We sat in a room without windows. I put a blanket over my daughter's head to silence the noise of the explosions. In the morning, the houses nearby were completely burnt. I have two small children and a 90-year-old grandmother. We took refuge in a technical building, 1.20 meters high. We drank the water that fell from the pipes. And when all the shops were closed, I went to steal to eat. Why didn't you run away immediately, before the beginning of the hostilities? From the first days of the war, when we could still reach Ukraine, the military had put the tanks in the middle of the road. There were those who offered them money to pass, but it was useless. The bridges were mined, they said. And this put the population at risk. Then it was too late to leave. And only when Russia conquered the entire coast, we managed to escape. Denis asks us to go to his grandmother's house, who lives right in Donetsk. Along the road he tells us the story of Bella, his friend from Mariupol. She was taken to the hospital in Donetsk by the military to be operated on. She was at risk of losing the use of her legs. The splinter of a projectile reached a few millimeters from her spine. The Ukrainian military had broken through the door of my house. They had made their base there. It was impossible to escape. My husband and I and the child lived in a semi-burial ground since March 1, without ever going out. Only on March 17, in the late afternoon, I was taken away by the neighbors because I needed cotton swabs for my daughter. When I was returning, I heard a very loud explosion. I saw the shock wave with my own eyes. I clung to the wall, but I slipped to the ground. I could no longer feel my legs. A few days later, we return to Mariupol. We follow a convoy of soldiers from the Republic of Donetsk to Mariupol, which lies in the most affected neighborhoods, bringing bread, canned meat and Easter sweets to the citizens. After conquering it with weapons, the soldiers now show their good face. They are here to stay. The inhabitants of Mariupol speak a great majority of Russian, and in the neighborhood where we are taken, the occupants call them liberators. Come, I'll show you how to live. We were down here for nine days. We boil the water on dry fuel, so we gave food to the children and prepared tea for the adults. The bombing was scary. They shot from the intersection. It was a Ukrainian armored car shooting. They burned the whole neighborhood, burned everything, destroyed everything. A shot came here, at this point, right in the cemetery. There are people who have lost their lives, how many? A boy came out to get a kettle, hit by a Grad. Another man was on the second floor and was injured. He had a leg stuck, he couldn't move. He burned alive right on the balcony. Do you feel Russian or Ukrainian? Russian. Excuse me, do you want to stay with the country that bombed you, that bombed your houses and your cities? It was Ukraine that bombed us. Ukraine. Russia didn't bomb us. It bombed the neo-Nazi Ukrainians of the Azov. Neo-Nazis? We worked and lived peacefully until 2014. Then they banned us from speaking in Russian. Our region is also Russian. It has always been. We have always been close to Russia. The convoy of the Republic of Donetsk moves in the front line in a neighborhood that faces the sea. In the background, you can see the Azov Stal Cemeteries where the last Ukrainian soldiers are buried. How far are the Ukrainian soldiers buried? Less than a kilometer from here. Do you see those guys behind the corner? They are going in that direction. There is still a risk that Ukrainian soldiers will come out at night to attack us. This is one of the neighborhoods where the fighting was the hardest. They shot each other and killed each other. However, someone still lives here. The happiness when you have lost everything can also be the smell of food. Have you always been here? Yes, since the first minute of the war. We had nowhere to go. My daughter tried to escape. I haven't heard from her since. My niece stayed with me. An officer of the Army of the Republic of Donetsk decides to give us his version. Is the battle of Mariupol over or is it still going on? The city is completely under our control. The last enemy forces that remained here are in the Azovstal plant and are completely blocked. Where do these shots come from? To the fire of our artillery. We suppress the single firing points that are in the Azovstal plant. How many people are there in Azovstal? It is quite difficult to know. Hundreds of soldiers, I guess. But the entire area of ​​the plant is blocked. From there they will no longer come out, at least not with weapons in hand. As far as civilians are concerned, I have no precise information. It is likely that there are, even if they should not be there. That's why we open humanitarian corridors quite often. We are completely surrounded by all kinds of weapons. And in a pre-announced place, people have the opportunity to go out and leave for the meeting points and temporary accommodation. But since no one has left yet, Azov, in my opinion, holds them back with force. They understand that this is their only chance to survive. In the event of an assault, the presence of civilians would greatly complicate our work. In short, in the end, the corridors were opened and the women, children and the most vulnerable people managed to get out of the steelworks. What is still inside is difficult to understand because no one has managed to enter what has been so far a kind of black hole of this war. What is certain is that we are in the middle of a humanitarian catastrophe.