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epa10354102 An engineer checks new heating system that was mounted in apartment of a local resident Nina, 73, in her apartment in Mariupol, Ukraine, 07 December 2022. Nina said that she, her relatives and some 75 other people had escaped the bombings by taking shelter in the basement of her appartment building. Mariupol had seen a long battle for its control between the Ukrainian forces and the Russian army and Russian backed separatist Donetsk PeopleâÄ™s Republic (DPR) as well as a siege, the hostilities lasted from February to the end of May 2022 killing thousands of people and destroying most of the city in the process. A ccording to the DPR government which took control after May 2022, more than five thousand builders are currently working in Mariupol, they expect the city to be completely rebuilt in a three years time. EPA/SERGEI ILNITSKY