the survivors of the hell of Mariupol

To evacuate, on Sunday May 1, the underground passages of the Azovstal factory in Mariupol (Ukraine) where they had been entrenched for almost two months, civilians had to climb, with difficulty, mountains of debris. Around, the buildings were pounded relentlessly by the Russian army, and are still mined. Ukrainian soldiers filmed the scene, and managed the exit from the rubble.

In the bus, women and children have finally found the light of day. “We were short of food, it was really hard for the children”, testifies a woman. At least a hundred civilians were evacuated on Sunday May 1. The operations continue with difficulty, Monday, May 2, supervised in particular by the International Red Cross. Some of the evacuees are transferred to Zaporijia (Ukraine), 250 kilometers away. Other residents took advantage of the humanitarian corridors to evacuate by their own means. A mother and her daughter, very moved, emerged together from the hell of Mariupol. “The scariest thing is when they fire shells, when you see a shell explode and people die,” they confide.