The bodies on the balconies, the buildings blackened and destroyed, the escape routes blocked. Everything smells of death a Mariupol, like Guernica, Aleppo, Leningrad. Nadezda Sukhorukova managed to escape from the martyr city, but in the days of bombing and pain she wrote her diary warthe tragic history of his country and a wiped out population.
Mariupol, openair cemetery
The story of this young woman Ukraine It was published on his Facebook page and relaunched on Twitter by Anastasiia Lapatina, a journalist from Kyiv Independent. No hope of salvation in his words. “In this city he writes everyone is waiting for death. I’m sure I’ll die soon, it’s a matter of days but I just wish death wasn’t so scary.
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THE HISTORY
There is no escape in the southern city that refused to surrender. «At the police is still the story of Sukhorukova we asked what to do with the lifeless body of our friend’s grandmother, and they advised us to put it on the balcony. How many corpses will lie on the balconies of Mariupol? ‘ Nadezda also recalls how little Sasha’s father Vitya was worse off when it’s worse in Hell. The body of Vitya, who died when his house was bombed, “lay on the floor of his apartment on the ninth floor with his head smashed, it was impossible to recover it: the house was hit again and again and burned down with this body.”
Russia and Ukraine had approved an ad hoc route for the evacuation of citizens from Mariupol to an area controlled by Kyiv. But Moscow issued an ultimatum to Ukrainian forces in the region two nights ago: they can leave without firefights, but leave weapons and ammunition behind. Ultimatum rejected by the Ukrainian government: «There is no talk said Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk There is no talk of handing over or depositing weapons. We have already informed the Russian side ». As a result, not even one of the eight humanitarian corridors agreed upon yesterday was able to leave Mariupol. And indeed, according to Zaporizhia region governor Olexandr Starukh, “some buses evacuating children were attacked by Russian forces and some of them were seriously injured: four were hospitalized and two were in “serious condition “. . The Russians, on the other hand, speak of 243 people who managed to escape the siege.
But confirmation of how impossible it is now to leave this hell also comes from the President of the Italian Red Cross and International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Society, Francesco Rocca, who has traveled to Romania and Ukraine. “In Mariupol he explains there is no longer any access, both at the exit and at the entrance. And those who are still there have no food, water, diesel or electricity». Rocca also appeals to international solidarity: “Ukraine’s needs are increasing, and therefore, while thanking everyone, I would like to warn that “this is not a sprint but a marathon of solidarity.
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Meanwhile, the death toll among civilians is growing, reaching over 3,000 people. This was stated by the commander of the Azov detachment, Major Denys Prokopenko, in a comment to CNN. “The number of dead is increasing every day he explains but no one can say the exact number of dead as people without names are buried in mass graves. Many dead bodies lie on the streets. Some people remain trapped under the rubble, buried alive ».
According to Deputy Solomiya Bobrovska, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Ukrainian Parliament, “Russian warships have started hitting buildings on the coast” and are using “heavy artillery, missiles and aircraft to attack from the sky”. They say about 5,000 died. “We know he adds that the fight has taken center stage for the second day in a row.” There is destruction everywhere. “I hope nobody will ever see what I saw these are the dramatic memoirs of the Greek consul in Mariupol, Manolis Androulakis, the last European diplomat to leave the besieged city . Mariupol becomes part of the cities completely destroyed by war: Guernica, Coventry, Aleppo, Grozny, Leningrad ». Your resistance will go down in history.
In the past few days, the international media have also left the city. “There is graveyard silence Nadezda still remembers, who managed to get out through a humanitarian corridor two days ago and is now in Mangush there are no voices, there are no children and grandmothers on the benches. The wind is dead too. And walking around the bunkers to escape the bombs, the question is always the same: is Kyiv still Ukrainian?
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