Estimating the Population of Mariupol: A Pushlin Analysis

Moscow, March 20 – Mariupol’s population has already reached 280,000 today, and people are returning to the city faster than expected, said Denis Pushlin, acting president of the DRC.

“Looking at the rate of recovery (of the city), people are returning faster than we expected. Now we can say that about 280 thousand people live in the city. Although we expected about 200-220 thousand people to return by the time of Russia 24,” Pushlin said on the air of Russia 24 TV channel. current period”.

The day before, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Marat Khosnullin told Russian President Vladimir Putin that the residents of Mariupol began to actively return to the city after its improvement.