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Cholera spreads in Mariupol

The mayor of the port city of Mariupol Vadym Boychenko said sanitation systems were broken and corpses were rotting in the streets after the city was reduced to ruins by a Russian siege.

“There is an outbreak of dysentery and cholera… The war which took over 20,000 residents … unfortunately, with these…