Before the war, Mariupol residents Tetiana Myhalyova, a costume maker, and Victor Perederiy, a metalworker, had never met. But after sheltering for weeks without heat or water, they decided to band together to escape.
Cars wait in a long line to leave Mariupol, on March 17. The city, on Ukraine's southeastern coast, has been heavily damaged by Russian bombardment.
Before the war, the two didn't know each other — Myhalyova, the 49-year-old costume maker with the downtown apartment, and Perederiy, a 35-year-old metalworker who lived in the suburbs with his young son. But the Russian shelling brought them together, as Perederiy came to shelter in the basement of his brother's building — the same building where Myhalyova lived.
In the last two weeks, devastating strikes on civilian targets in Mariupol have included a maternity hospital where pregnant women were being treated, along with an art school and the Drama Theatre where Myhalyova worked. Ukrainian authorities say that hundreds of civilians were sheltering in each location.
"We don't know anyone who was killed, but we know people who went missing, and we don't know anything about them," she says — such as her mother-in-law, who left one day to go to a shop and never returned."There's no connection, there's no information. We don't know what happened to them." The trip from Mariupol to nearby Berdyansk — in peaceful times, about an hour's drive — took most of the day. The roads in Mariupol were filled with rubble and shells, they say. Once they were out of the city, potholes and burned-out cars slowed their progress.
Efforts to establish humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to evacuate have had mixed results, with theOver the weekend, Russia said it would allow the safe passage of civilians out of the city if Ukrainian forces would surrender."All the Russians said — it's absolutely a lie. They block our city, destroy our city and kill our people.
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