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The northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv has been almost completely encircled by Russian forces and left without electricity, gas or running water.

The Mayor of Chernihiv, Vladyslav Atrochenko, announced this weekend that the city has been "blown to smithereens".

At present, there are no humanitarian corridors for citizens to to leave. Around 120,000 people are still in the city.

Ukrainian MP Oleksii Goncharenko drove around Chernihiv with the mayor last week, and filmed the damage he witnessed.

He said: "The bridge which joined Chernihiv to the rest of Ukraine was bombed by Russians and destroyed. After this, they started to shell humanitarian corridors, from which people are leaving their city. So now, it's almost completely blocked. So now, the next problem will be supply of food and medicines. So the situation is awful, more than 100,000 people are still there, they're just hostages for Russian troops."

(Photo Credit: Getty Images / via Satellite Imagery from Maxar Technologies.)

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