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More than 10,000 civilians have died in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, the city’s mayor has said.

Vadym Boychenko said the death toll could surpass 20,000, as weeks of attacks and privation leave the bodies of Mariupol’s people “carpeted through the streets” in an interview by phone on Monday with the Associated Press.

Boychenko also accused Russian forces of having blocked weeks of thwarted humanitarian convoys into the city in an attempt to conceal the carnage there from the outside world.

Mariupol has been cut off by Russian attacks that began soon after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the invasion of Ukraine in late February, and has suffered some of the most brutal assaults of the war.

Boychenko gave new details of recent allegations by Ukrainian officials that Russian forces have brought mobile cremation equipment to Mariupol to dispose of the corpses of victims of the siege.

Russian forces have taken many bodies to a huge shopping centre where there are storage facilities and refrigerators, Boychenko said.

“Mobile crematoriums have arrived in the form of trucks: You open it, and there is a pipe inside and these bodies are burned,” he said.

The mayor said he had several sources for his description of the allegedly methodic burning of corpses by Russian forces in the city but gave few further details.

The discovery of large numbers of apparently executed civilians after Russian forces retreated from cities around the capital, Kyiv, this month already has given rise to widespread charges from Ukrainians and the West that Russia is committing war crimes in Ukraine.

Zelenskiy in-part placed the responsibility for the lives of Ukrainian lives being lost on western nations who have not sent weapons to bolster Ukraine’s war effort.

“Yes, Ukrainians are incomparably braver ... But when it comes to the necessary weapons, we still depend on the supply, on our partners.”Unfortunately, we are not getting as much as we need to end this war sooner. To completely destroy the enemy on our land. And to fulfil those tasks that are obvious to each of our people. In particular, to unblock Mariupol.

If we got jets and enough heavy armoured vehicles, the necessary artillery, we would be able to do it. But...”

Zelenskiy said that although he is sure Ukraine “will get almost everything we need” he stressed that more military support needed to come soon. Not only time is being lost. The lives of Ukrainians are being lost. Lives that can no longer be returned.

And this is also the responsibility of those who still keep the weapons Ukraine needs in their armoury. The responsibility that will forever remain in history.”

PROPAGANDA TEXT COPIED FROM THEGUARDIAN