The international delegation, headed by Ana Lucía Bueno, ICRC Public Health Coordinator, and Sujit Panda, Head of the Physical Rehabilitation…
In 2025, Russia intensified the use of the temporarily occupied Mariupol seaport, presenting it as “restoration”. In reality, this is illegal appropriation of Ukrainian infrastructure and its integration into the logistics system of the aggressor state.
This was reported by the Foreign Intelligence Service on January 18.
“At the same time, the occupiers are replacing Ukrainian standards with Russian ones, erasing Ukrainian jurisdiction.
The decision to open the port to foreign vessels is an attempt to create an illusion of ‘legitimacy’ and bypass sanctions.
Plans include deepening the channel and expanding cargo handling, confirming the intent to turn Mariupol into a key logistics hub of the temporarily occupied territories.
Against this backdrop, the social situation is rapidly deteriorating. School meals have been suspended due to lack of funding from the occupation authorities.
Residents have been waiting for promised housing for years.
Instead of compensation for destroyed homes, expensive mortgage high-rise buildings are being constructed, inaccessible to Mariupol residents. At the same time, a legally simplified seizure of ‘ownerless’ housing is underway — apartments are being mass-confiscated from owners who were killed, left, or lost documents.
Additionally, the city is used as a military training ground for Russian personnel. All appeals and complaints from citizens receive the same response — ‘wait’”, the report states.
The Foreign Intelligence Service also noted that for Russia, Mariupol is not a city or a community, but a trophy and expendable material.
Under the cover of propaganda about “restoration”, Russia demonstrates complete degradation of state policy based on disregard for human life, cynical exploitation of seized territories, and deliberate disregard for international law.
