FALSE: Photo of 30,000 corpses of Azov Regiment National Guards in bags in Mariupol

FALSE: Photo of 30,000 corpses of Azov Regiment National Guards in bags in Mariupol

12 April 2022
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A satellite image, which allegedly shows 30,000 bags of corpses of the National Guards of the Azov Regiment in Mariupol, is spreading on social media. 

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This is really Mariupol. However, the photo shows a large queue of people to the grocery store.

Photos taken on March 29, 2022 by the Maxar Technologies Worldview-3 satellite depict about a hundred people queuing in front of one of the grocery stores in Mariupol.

Civilians waited in line to get food and other necessities. Currently in Mariupol is a humanitarian catastrophe – no food, medicine, electricity and heating. Russian troops do not allow humanitarian aid into the city.

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