How Two Friends Evacuated 700 People From Mariupol
“We felt a terrible sense of guilt that we were safe, and there were people left in danger.”
“We felt a terrible sense of guilt that we were safe, and there were people left in danger.”
Ukraine’s second largest city is critical for control of the country’s east, but resistance is holding up.
“To understand what's happening, you have to multiply Bucha and Irpin and Borodyanka a hundred times.”
Humanitarian workers killed by Russian troops as they brought aid to Borodyanka.
Residents believe the Russians attacked so viciously because of spirited resistance by the local territorial defence.
Residents tell how Russian soldiers left civilians to die in the basement of a bombed out building.
The coastal city would be preparing for the tourist season. Instead, there is little food, fuel or heat, and you can be killed for refusing to give a soldier your phone.
In Russian-occupied areas, the modus operandi has become random torture and the execution of civilians, seemingly on a whim.
But the international community’s unprecedented unity and support comes in sharp contrast to their response three decades ago.
Locals recount random, unaccountable violence against civilians in clear evidence of war crimes.