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:
https://t.me/mariupolnow
Link to Instagram:
https://instagram.com/mariupolnow?utm_medium=copy_link