
According to the Ukrainian Ombudsman, the Russian authorities plan to demolish about a thousand houses that could not destroy until the ground during the siege of the city. They demolish the houses in the historical part of the city in order to hide the consequences of their bombing. As Lubinets writes, thereby Russia turns the "history of Mariupol from the Second World War into unnecessary, which will subsequently be thrown away."
In mid -October, Mariupol's occupation authorities demolished the Memorial to the “victims of the Holodomor”, established in the city center 18 years ago. “The most affected by the hunger of 1932–33 was not at all Ukraine and Donbass - the most affected Kazakhstan, the Volga region, the North Caucasus,” they argued their decision.