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Tetyana Pustovoit | Mariupol
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“Our friends Svitlana and Valeriy were tortured and then killed by the Russians”

Together with her children, Tatiana left Mariupol on 25 February. As she learned later, the first shell landed on their bed a few days later. Then the entire flat burned down. Tatiana’s husband is a military man. That is why, when the Russians entered the house, they began with the interrogation of their neighbours. The latter immediately turned in the friends of the Pustovoyt family, Valeriy and Svitlana Surzhko.

“They killed them. They tortured them, demanding to tell them where my husband and his group were positioned. Valeriy died right there. He was very slim. He had cancer. And Svitlana was still alive. Some people hid her in school no. 10. She died in the hospital. Her lungs were severely injured,” says Tetiana, a resident of Mariupol.

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  • Interview date:
    03.07.2023
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