At least five thousand people are feared to have been killed over the last week in Mariupol, said the city council, who further warn that the death toll could prove to be much higher, as Russia continues to stall evacuation efforts in the war-torn city.

Occupation forces have opened filtration camps and now are subjecting people to interrogations, allegedly trying to track down witnesses of their own atrocities.

In an attempt to cover up their war crimes, they also are using mobile cremation machines with teams of local collaborators and DNR militants to get rid of the dead bodies they keep collecting around the city.

Mariupol mayor, Vadym Boychenko, said the city has been turned into a ‘death camp,’ as the devastation and atrocities could be much worse than for the wars in Chechnya or Aleppo, Syria, akin to another ‘Auschwitz or Majdanek’.