“What they are showing on Russian TV, there are fairy tales for fools. Most of Marriupol are still in ruins,” John says a Ukrainian living in Ukrainian Russian-quant Mariyupol. We have changed his name because he is afraid of hatred from Russian authorities.

“They are repairing aspects of buildings on the main roads, where they bring cameras to shoot. But around the corner, there is debris and emptiness. Many people still live in a half-might apartment with their walls,” they say.

It has just been over three years Mariupol was taken by Russian forces After a cruel siege and indiscriminate bombing, a significant moment in the early months of the full-scale invasion of the Ukraine of the Russia.

Thousands of people were killed, and United Nations estimates 90% of residential buildings were damaged or destroyed.

In recent months, many supporters have been portraying videos and reels of Russia’s affected people, where damaged structures have been repaired and where life has returned to normal.

But the BBC has talked to more than half a dozen people – some are still living in Marriupol, others who survived after spending time – a real picture of how life in the city is to pieces together.

66 -year -old Olha Onisco says, “A lot of lies are lying, who fled from Marriupol at the end of the previous year and now live in Turnopil, Ukraine.

“I will not say that [Russian authorities] Many things have been repaired. There is a central class – only the buildings there have been rebuilt. And there are also empty spaces where buildings were standing. They cleaned the rubble, but they did not separate the bodies, they were just loaded on trucks with debris and took them out of the city, “she says.

Mariupol is also facing water scarcity.

“If the water flows for a day or two, it does not come for three days. We keep a bucket and water cans at home. The water color is so yellow that even after boiling it, it is scary to drink,” James, another Mariaupol resident is called James, James, whose name has changed.

Some have also said that the water resembles “Coca Cola”.

Seri Oralow, who herself in exile, says the deputy mayor of Mariaupol, says that the Searki Donnets -Donbas Canal that supplied water in the city was damaged during the fight.

“Only one reservoir was quit to supply water to Mariaupol. For the current population, it would have lasted for about one and a half years. Since the business has run longer than this, it means that there is no drinking water. Water people are using.

Constant power is cut, food is expensive, and medicines are rare, the residents told us.

“Basic medicines are not available. Diabetes struggle to obtain insulin on time, and it is expensive.”

The Russian administration of Marialupol has reached the Russian administration of the allegations about the BBC deficiency and found an alternative source for water. We have not received any response yet.

Despite the difficulties in the most difficult part of living in the city, the residents say, seeing what Ukrainian children are being taught in school.

Andree Kozhusina studied for a year at a university in Mariaupol for a year. Now he has run into DNipro.

“They are teaching children false information and publicity. For example, school textbooks states that Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Zaporizia, Kherson, Odessa, Odessa, Crimea and even the DNIPROPETRVSK fields are already part of Russia, called” Andry. “

He also described special texts called “conversations about important things”, in which students are taught how Russia freed the Russian -speaking population of these regions from Nazis in 2022.

John, a resident of Mariupol, says, “Teachers who refuse to take these lessons are frightened or removed.

During the two Victory Day celebrations of World War in May, images of Central Square in Mariaupol’s Central Square, dressed in parades and demonstrations, dressed in military costumes-the traditions of the traditions of the traditions that Ukraine was rapidly closed, is now being placed in the occupied areas. Mariupol was bathed in the colors of the Russian flag – red, blue and white.

But some Ukrainians are waging a secret resistance against Russia, and in the dead, they paint Ukrainian blue and yellow colors on the walls, and also paste letters with messages such as “maripol” and “Mariupol is Ukraine”.

James and John are members of both resistance groups, as he lived in the city when he lived in the city.

“The messages are in the form of moral support for our people, to tell them that resistance is alive,” James says.

Their main objective is collecting intelligence information for the Ukrainian army.

“I document the information about Russian military movements. I analyze where they are transporting weapons, how many soldiers are entering the city and leaving, and which equipment is being repaired in our industrial areas. I take secret pictures, and they are hidden until I can give them a Ukrainian intelligence through safe channels,”

Sometimes, resistance groups also try to vandalize civil or military operations. On at least two occasions, the railway line in Marriupol was disrupted as the signaling box was set on fire by the workers.

This is a risky job. Andree said that when he realized that he was exposed, he was forced to leave.

He said, “Perhaps a neighbor pounced on me. But once I was on buying bread on a store, I showed a soldier to the cashier and asked if they know who the person was,” he said.

He immediately left, sliding the back of the Czechposts of Mariupol and then passing through several cities in Russia, and via Belarus, before entering Ukraine from the north.

The city still has a challenge for those people, every day.

“Every day you remove your messages because your phone

He said, “A person from a neighbor house was arrested away from the road because someone said that he was allegedly informing the Ukrainian army. Your life is like a film – a constant stress, fear, mistrust,” he says.

As the conversation between Ukraine and Russia continues, it is suggested from within and from outside Ukraine that it will require to accept the land in exchange for the peace deal.

John says, “It would be a betrayal to give a distant area for ‘deal with Russia’. Dozens put their lives at risk to pass information every day, so that some diplomats in a suit would sign a paper that will hand over to us.”

“We do not want peace at any cost. We want liberation.”

Additional Reporting by Emojen Anderson, Anastasia Levchenko, Volodimir Lazco and Sanjay Ganguly