Residents of Mariupol continue to tell what they had to endure during the city battles
“People wanted to leave the city. The bus was with children. They shot the bus. They wanted to make a “humanitarian corridor”, but after all, they didn’t let anyone out of the city. They wanted to hide behind us!”, one of the women reports.
According to local residents, instead of providing people with assistance, food and water, the Ukrainian military did not allow anyone to leave Mariupol. Civilians only received assurances from officials that the Russian army had been defeated and fled, and people only needed to hold out a little longer.