I know. Which is why I feel that videos like this are important to share. Otherwise this would just be a random collection of clips from an ordinary city going about its normal daily life. It would hardly be anything worth posting about.

As Eva Bartlett points out, the city was never “a pile of rubble”, only certain parts were badly damaged where heavy fighting took place because Nazis were holed up in apartment buildings, schools and hospitals. And they are rebuilding there very fast.

There are towns in the Donbass that look like what they think Mariupol looks like, and those are the ones that were on the frontline for over eight years like Marinka, Avdeyevka, etc. and it’s because both sides have been shelling them.