Giovanni Bruno is now safe with his family in Palanca, Moldova. He managed to escape from Russianheld Cherson and went to Odessa before leaving the country in the war.
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I am finite safe and secure Giovanni Bruno and his family after days of odyssey in Ukraine, where They were stuck in Kherson since the Russian invasion. The news was broken by the same 35yearold from Pozzallo who had repeatedly asked for help getting out of town in recent days. The intervention of a journalist from Radio Rai was fundamental to the last stretch that took them out of the country during the war. “We are safe. we left last night contacted by a journalist from Radio Rai, Simone Zazzera. Now we are with him in the car, he offered to accompany us, explained Giovanni Bruno Agi. The man was in Kherson, in the southern part of the country occupied by the Russians, and had decided to leave Kherson autonomously, like many other Ukrainians, going to Odessa and the west of the country to cross the border with Moldova, which a few tens of kilometers from the port city.
“The city is completely controlled by the Russian army and it’s not possible to go out if they try to shoot you,” Bruno explained to Fanpage.it in recent days. Then the decision to try it south. After a dangerous and arduous journey of Kerson Arrived on the coast, Giovanni Bruno reached the Mycolaiv area with his wife and daughter of only 22 months and arrived in the port city of Odessa on Saturday evening. “A decision we suddenly made although we were ready to leave at any time. We left Kherson and arrived in Odessa with a trusted family member,” the Italian explained yesterday afternoon, adding: “I don’t hide the fact that we were very worried, but from the Mycolaiv region to Odessa we found a relatively calm situation . At the gates of Odessa we found checks by Ukrainian troops.
To reach the border, another passage was required to manage the last hour by car. At this point, Radio Rai journalist Simone Zazzera, who, after learning that they were in Odessa, contacted the family and offered to take them away, intervened. Giovanni Bruno is now safe with his family in Palanca, Moldova. where there are refugee camps for the many civilians who fled the war in Ukraine.