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‘Mariupol will still be Ukrainian’ – wife of the military

Yulia Beley escaped with children from Mariupol. They lived in the basement, drank rainwater, buried neighbors in the yard. Julia's husband continues to defend Ukraine from the Russian aggressor.

‘Back in the day Shoygu and I saved Neftegorsk after an earthquake and now he turns Mariupol into it’

A resident of Sumy, Yevgen Prokopenko, a former military, formerly a Russian officer. He is asking the Minister of Defence of RF, Shoygu, whom he used to know personally: "What happened to you? What are you doing?".  Interview prepared by a journalist from Lviv, Taras Zozulinsky.

‘I survived 21 days with a shard in my body. I was lucky’

Anastasia Makeeva lived for a month in war-torn Mariupol. Now she is recovering from an operation in Zaporizhia, after which she plans to go to Western Ukraine with her family.

‘I washed and buried my brother riddled with shrapnel, and his bloodied and wounded mother was barely in time for the burial…’

Olena Vasylieva from Luhansk region, like most residents of the region, fell into the vortex of war twice – in 2014 and now. On March 4, her cousin died of her injuries. He was buried in a black bag, there were no coffin any more...

‘We were lying in the open air, shells were whistling overhead.’ A resident of Mariupol tells about the evacuation and the situation in the city

38 days spent in the basement to survive the blockade, search for products and cooking at a bonfireunder the sound of explosions, mass graves and building the routeto salvation. It was all reported by Nikol, a resident of Mariupol, who with her sister and nephewwas able to use a humanitarian corridorand leave the ‘hot spot.’

‘I saw fire arrows flying from Kherson...’

Talking to Ukrainians, we preserve the voices of witnesses for the history and future tribunal of war criminals. Read an interview with a inhabitant of Mykolayiv whose apartment was destroyed by Russian grad system.

‘... I sang in the basement to calm my daughter down’

Kyiv volunteer Antonina Dembitska interviews Ukrainians, who had to flee the war, to preserve the voices of witnesses for the history and future tribunal of war criminals. Read an interview with a Kharkiv woman who was forced to flee shelling and bombing with a baby in her arms and a five-year-old daughter.

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