“Мy wife and I, with her mother in a wheelchair, tried to get out of Mariupol. We stood for days waiting for evacuation, getting wet in the rain, freezing in the cold wind. And each time, Russia did not fulfill the agreements, and the buses did not come,” says the man.
The full-scale war broke into Mariupol with particular cruelty and cynicism: the Russians bombarded it viciously, burned it, and drowned it in blood. Not everyone was ready to believe that such things could happen, and they knew that the city was thoroughly fortified by three lines of defensive structures. So people hoped that the occupiers would not capture it and stayed in their homes. Yevhen’s family also stayed behind, taking care of his wife’s 90-year-old mother, who was bedridden and could not leave at that time.
