Residents of the occupied city of Mariupol are being “forced to hunt pigeons” for food, Vadym Boichenko, the exiled mayor of Mariupol, said in a statement on Monday.
Boichenko said villagers were “using makeshift traps” to catch the pigeons and that Russian forces were “mocking people who used to live their lives to the fullest before the war – not knowing what hunger or lack of clean water was.”
“These terrible things are happening in the 21st century, in the heart of Europe, in front of the whole world,” he added.
Oleksandr Lazarenko, head of the Primary Health Care Center in Mariupol, warned that “pigeons are a breeding ground for many viral, bacterial and fungal diseases.”
“Infected meat can cause histoplasmosis, encephalitis, ornithosis, salmonellosis, toxoplasmosis and other dangerous diseases. Such pathologies are especially dangerous for children and the elderly. In the absence of proper medical care, they can even lead to death,” she concluded.
Source: CNN Brasil
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