Martin Lewis has been flooded with praise after he returned to Good Morning Britain with a historic special episode. The Money Saving Expert is no stranger to hosting the ITV news programme now having made his presenting debut on the show last year.
10.03.2022 - 16:01 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Good Morning Britain (GMB) spoke to the deputy mayor of Mariupol, Sergei Orlov, on Thursday morning (March 10) following Russia's air strike on the Ukrainian city.
The shocking attack over recent days, which included the bombing of a maternity hospital on Wednesday, meant people had to dig a mass grave to bury casualties in the city.
Presenter Ranvir Singh said: "There is a photograph which we are not showing this morning on air because it's breakfast television.
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"But it does show people in Mariupol having to build and dig mass graves because there are potentially - is this right - a thousand civilians who have died in Mariupol?"
Mr Orlov responded: "We can only confirm numbers from the day before yesterday, so the numbers we had were 1,207 killed [civilian] people.
"You must understand that there is only bodies that we can collect on the street - and it's absolutely not possible to bury them in private graves out of the city.
"That's why we've got only one possibility to bury them in a mass grave."
He confirmed that 47 people were buried in the mass grave and it was not possible to identify all of them.
This is the ninth hospital to be destroyed and there is now nowhere to put injured citizens.
Mr Orlov added: “It’s an absolutely awful situation for us and we can not imagine… We do not know how to tell how this can be the 21st Century.”
During the interview, the deputy mayor spoke of hopes of a ceasefire, with thousands of civilians ready to be evacuated.
He continued: “This morning we hope it will become a kind of ceasefire… We are ready to evacuate about 2,000 citizens, but there is no ceasefire unfortunately.
"Ten minutes ago we received information
Martin Lewis has been flooded with praise after he returned to Good Morning Britain with a historic special episode. The Money Saving Expert is no stranger to hosting the ITV news programme now having made his presenting debut on the show last year.
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