A 6-year-old girl named Tanya died from dehydration in the besieged city of Mariupol over a week after Russia's invading forces cut off the water and power supply
over a week after Russia’s invading forces cut off the water and power supply, according to Ukrainian officials.on Telegram, Mayor Vadim Boychenko wrote that the girl’s body was discovered in the rubble of a home destroyed by Russian shelling. The girl’s mother was also found dead at the scene, according to the mayor, who said it’s not clear how long Tanya was suffering before she died.
“We cannot imagine how much suffering an innocent child had to endure,” Boychenko wrote on Tuesday. “In the last minutes of her life she was alone, exhausted, frightened, terribly thirsty. This is just one of the many stories of Mariupol, which has been surviving the blockade for eight days.”said in a video address that the child’s death was “probably the first such case since the Second World War,” adding: “Listen to me carefully: In 2022, a child died from dehydration.
The girl’s death has not been independently confirmed, but it’s just one tale of horror from Mariupol, where Russian forces have trapped hundreds of thousands of people with no running water and no power. One city official described a humanitarian disaster earlier in the week,