(NewsNation) — Satellite images reveal the scale of the devastation left behind in Mariupol, Ukraine, as Russia’s bombardment of the encircled city continues.
Before-and-after photos of the strategic city of 430,000 people on the Sea of Azov show grocery stores, shopping malls and residential structures in absolute ruins and may be hard to look at for some.
In the wake of the shelling of a maternity hospital, Mariupol’s mayor said that 1,160 people have already been killed in the city alone due to the bombing.
The images released by Maxar Technologies paint a bleak picture of the damage done so far to the besieged city where residents are without power, heat and water.
Use the scroll bar to show the before and after photos in the images below.
These before-and-after images of a residential area show scorched earth and an apartment building seems to be completely destroyed.
The defense department estimates that Russia has launched 710 missiles into Ukraine so far, and this is just a glimpse of the devastation they leave behind.
Efforts to evacuate residents in Mariupol and deliver badly needed food, water and medicine failed because of what the Ukrainians said were continued Russian attacks.
The city took advantage of a lull in the shelling to hurriedly bury 70 people. Some were soldiers, but most were civilians.
