War in Ukraine: in Mariupol, wives and mothers of soldiers ask for help from the international community

To Mariupol (Ukraine)wives and mothers of Ukrainian soldiers surrounded by Russian troops in the factory ofAzovstal gather on Monday, May 16, to urgently request assistance from the international community to extract their men. The hell of war, they experience it vicariously from their phones, fear in their stomachs.

The wife of a soldier of the regiment Azov try to keep hope. “He told me that the noose is tightening around them, and that they are completely surrounded, that the end is near”says Natalia Zarytska. She still hopes to see her husband again. Besieged, bombarded night and day and cut off from any possibility of supplies, the 700 soldiers of the regiment Azov expect to fight their last battle. “Of course I have to see him again. He’s my son, he has to come back. He knows I’m waiting for himtestifies Svitlana Tarasenkomother of a soldier in the regiment Azov.