4 minutes agoWitnesses relate the moments of leaving Maritupolis
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)Mykola Trofimenko, head of Marioupol State University, who is also at the city council, has told the BBC of his dramatic escape from Marioupol last week with his five-year-old wife and son. They are now living in the western town of Lviv, where he is trying to replay Mariupol University. Before [...]
They are now living in the western town of Lviv, where he is trying to replay Mariupol University.
Before leaving, they had spent several weeks hiding with about 80 neighbors in a basement shelter.
He said they joined a large convoy of cars led by the International Red Cross, which was attacked by Russians:
The Marioupolis citizens formed a large convoy of cars... for miles, there were thousands of cars. We could leave town. We arrived in Vasylivka, not far from Zaporizhja, [after passing] 15 roadblocks of the Russians”, he told BBC Radio 4.
