Starving kids in Ukraine forced to 'eat dogs and drink radiator water' to survive

dailystar.co.uk:

Ukraine have been reduced to eating dogs and drinking radiator water in a bid to survive, terrified locals have claimed.Scenes in the city of Mariupol include civilians rummaging for food, desperately searching for shelter and whole neighbourhoods turning to devastating piles of rubble.

On Sunday (March 20), Russia gave Ukraine an ultimatum to surrender Mariupol with the defence ministry offering soldiers the chance to leave the city if they drop their arms but officials rejected the threats.

And with the city falling to Russian bombardment, heartbroken locals have shared their ordeal, with businessman Dmytro admitting that his friends have resorted to eating stray dogs. “You hear the words but it’s impossible to really take them in, to believe this is happening,” he said when talking about locals eating stray dogs after fleeing the city today (Tuesday, March 22). “It is hell on earth.”Mykola Osichenko, chief executive of Mariupol TV, said he is constantly playing the role of a human shield to try and protect his son.“When the bombs fell, I would routinely cover my son with my body,” he said. “But I knew that I couldn’t really protect him, that it was an act of desperation.”For more than two weeks, the city has been hit with catastrophic attacks which saw missiles launch into Mariupol from just a few days into the invasion, which has resulted in electricity, gas and water supplies being cut off.Authorities have confirmed that 2,400 residents of the city had been killed since Putin launched the full-blown invasion on February 24, reports the Financial Times.While 400,000 residents have been left to freeze in shelters, with others left desperately hunting for supplies while explosives were set off around them.Dmytro, who.