Compare Greek diplomat stayed in Ukrainian Mariupol During the Russian bombardment and arrived in Athens on Sunday, the destruction of the city as seen in Stalingrad and Aleppo.
After returning to Athens, where he was received as a hero in Greece, the Greek Consul General in Mariupol Manolis Androllakis called on the people to “unite their voices to demand an armistice and a ceasefire”.
People evacuated from Mariupol at a registration center for the displaced in the city of Zaporozhye in northwestern Ukraine (file photo from AFP)
From the Children’s Hospital in Mariupol on March 9 (Archyde.com)
Destroyed building of Ukraine’s Mariupol
“Maripol will be included in the list of cities completely destroyed by war, such as Guernica, Stalingrad, Grozny and Aleppo,” he told reporters at the airport.
Androlakis had organized several successful evacuations of Greek expatriates before leaving the city on Tuesday.
“We tried to save as many expatriates as possible,” he said, adding that “the heroes are the people who stayed there and will try to start their lives from scratch.”
“At the moment, civilians are being bombed blindly,” he said, noting that he saw human limbs scattered in the city.
Athens announced last month that about ten people from the Greek minority of 100,000 have been killed since the beginning of the Russian invasion.
The history of the Greek minority in Ukraine dates back to the eighteenth century.