A father’s heartbreaking letter to his son about his mother’s death under the Mariupol bombing. “I buried my mother near a kindergarten,” reads the handwritten note, followed by a card noting the burial.
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TO Mariupol Almost 80% of the city’s infrastructure has now been destroyed by Russian bombing, including residential buildings, theaters and hospitals. According to local authorities, at least 30 percent of the buildings can no longer be rebuilt, there is a lack of electricity, water and food and Now the bodies are buried in the street. Some 2,500 civilians have died in this strategic city and center of Ukraine’s metal industry since the Russian invasion began on February 24. Dramatic numbers, behind which hide terrible stories of completely devastated families and people totally upset by the war. Remembering this is one of them Heartbreaking letter from a father to his son to recount the death of his mother under the bombs.
“Dima, the mother was killed on March 9, 2022. She died quickly. Shortly thereafter, the house caught fire. Dima, I’m sorry I couldn’t save her, says the very painful letter written in Russian by a resident of Mariupol, which was once a charming city on the Azov Sea, a symbol of development, and now a place of pain and death. In the letter that his father sent to his son, and which became known to the journalist Sergei Sumlenny, the man tells that he buried his wife on a piece of land in the city and tried to indicate the place, hoping to give a confession can more dignified burial after the war. The message begins with the phone number and some other personal information, followed by the message. “I buried my mother near a kindergarten” You can read the handwritten note followed by a card indicating the burial. In fact, on the sheet the author drew a map with the location of the grave, heating pipes, trees and fences.