"Sister cities" Mariupol and Grozny destroyed by the Russian army

On August 8, the Chechen Republic and the "DPR" signed an agreement on cooperation and the recognition of Mariupol and Grozny as sister cities.

“These cities have a lot in common: indiscriminate shelling, “filtration camps”, enforced disappearances, torture and tens of thousands of civilians killed. All this is the actions of the Russian security forces, who first made Grozny the most destroyed city in Europe, and then destroyed 90% of residential buildings in Mariupol,” said the Memorial Human Rights Center.

Back in February, Memorial released a report titled "A Chain of Wars, a Chain of Crimes, a Chain of Impunity: Russian Wars in Chechnya, Syria, Ukraine." The report clearly shows how the "experience" of past wars, in particular, the Chechen and Syrian ones, is used by Russia in the war with Ukraine.

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