Hi all!
I haven't posted anything for a long time. There was a good reason.
I am from Ukraine, my hometown is Mariupol. When the war between Russia and Ukraine began (February 24), my city was taken into the "cauldron", that is, Russian troops surrounded it.
I don't know if this information will be useful or interesting to you. But I'm tired and I want to share with you everything that I saw and what happened in my city.
My family and I... we couldn't leave the city for a month.
During this month, all the houses in Mariupol were shot. 90% of the city is destroyed, 30% of houses cannot be restored. My city is dead! I don't have a house anymore, an aerial bomb fell on it.
On the second day of the war, electricity, water, gas, and heating were turned off throughout the city. But that wasn't the worst. Our hell began when air bombs fell all over the city every day, tanks, mortars, and hail fired.
The scariest moment was when we realized that there was nowhere else to hide! There is nothing, there is no connection, you cannot call friends, relatives, find out how they are.
Most of the cars were destroyed, we were lucky, only the windows on our car were shattered with fragments, we sealed them with adhesive tape and film.
We cooked outside, made fires. They collected firewood on the streets, there was enough firewood (after the bombs, many trees fell). We (family, all neighbors) kept near the fire, so as not to go out, cooked in turn, as soon as the plane flew, we ran to the basement.
The corpses of civilians were dragged to the roads, they were collected and made mass graves (all thrown into one pit) or buried near their homes.
Our refuge was the basement under the high-rise building. But he wouldn't survive the air bombs. We understood this, so we decided to go.
We were driving out of town just as the bomb hit the drama theater.
This is the first post, my little cry from the heart. I will describe further in more detail.
All about the city that no longer exists.
The photos that I use are from different sources: my mobile phone (not yet dead), photos of my friends and acquaintances that we share in a general group, a telegram channel.
Link to Telegram:
Link to Instagram:
https://t.me/mariupolnow
https://instagram.com/mariupolnow?utm_medium=copy_link
I am truly sorry to hear about that. What a disgrace.
How are you now, have you managed to get out of there safely? Does your bank account still work?
We got out of the city for a very long time, it was hard. My family's cars burned down. Therefore, it was necessary to look for people who could lead out of the city. You can’t leave alone, otherwise the car could be shot. Therefore, it was necessary to go by a group of cars (column). There were many checkpoints outside the city, it was very scary, because everywhere there were broken tanks and equipment, burnt cars.
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Why didn't you leave the city? Who prevented you from leaving the city?
At the beginning of the war, people believed that everything would end quickly, no one expected that the city would be destroyed by 99%. Then people were not allowed out of the city. There were fights on the outskirts of the city.
In the beginning, we turned off the electricity, gas and water, turned off the connection, we could not get through to our relatives and friends. Gathered the family.
Then there was the problem with the cars. The military occupied the garage cooperative, bombs flew there from the Russians, the cars in the garages burned down. Therefore, we had to find a person with a car and who has spare tires. Because outside the city all the roads were broken.
And also, in order to leave the city, it was necessary to collect a column of cars. If you go alone, you can be shot. So we were looking for more people.
There were a lot of organizational moments to leave the city.
Just to make it clear, it is the Russians who are shooting people leaving, correct?
If you are driving a car and you do not have white rags on the side mirrors and there is no inscription "PEOPLE" or "CHILDREN", both Russians and Ukrainians could shoot at you, because it is not clear who you are.
Because the military, both Russian and Ukrainian, often took away cars from local residents.
How do you feel about the fact that the Ukrainian military took up defensive positions in the city? Who fired on the people who tried to leave the city?
We were very angry when we realized that the military took up defensive positions in the city and now our city will become the center of hostilities. When tanks began to be placed between residential buildings, we realized that now they were hiding behind us and if we want to live, we need to do something.
If you are driving a car and you do not have white rags on the side mirrors and there is no inscription "PEOPLE" or "CHILDREN", both Russians and Ukrainians could shoot at you, because it is not clear who you are.
It was more terrible when you were driving and shells were falling around, you didn’t know if you could leave or not.
Really sorry to see what happened to your city. Wishing you lots of strength to cope with this unimaginable loss. Upvoting for support, not because I "like" what I see, obviously.
Thank you very much, I also want to tell this, not because I want pity. It's just that I see people being deceived in the news and people don't see the truth, how it all looks in reality.
Никогда не матерился! Не переношу! А сейчас нормальные слова не могу подобрать! Не получается!
Please please please, keep on writing. The world needs to know, every tiny detail, the more the better. History books will add your contributions, it's vital that future generations have no doubt about what happened and how it happened and that Russia is responsible. We cannot afford future generations trying to find excuses for Putin.