Valeriy and Tatyana Burak describe their horrifying experience and eventual escape from the besieged port city of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine.
In the tent that acts as a port of refuge as the displaced regroup, eat, pick up some new clothes and wonder how they survived, we got talking. Here's their story, in their words.
So as soon as the shelling began, well, we were in our apartment in one of the districts, which is on the left bank. It was probably the first one which they started shelling and we decided to move to another district because our friends thought that it was safer there. So we got into the car of one of our friends and drove to another district.
Valeriy: And, by the way, he was a military doctor, and I guess they're going to make this hospital a military hospital. But now when we were on our mattresses, on the floor, in the corridors and we heard the sound of the plane and then horrible boom and the whole building…Sky correspondent Mark Stone speaking with the Buraks
And then the shelling moved a little bit and so people try to get out of the hospital to find their friends; to find their relatives because there was no mobile connection. They couldn't get in touch with anybody.
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