“The Drama Theater was hit: I could not see or hear anything, and I thought that I had already died...”

Oleksandr Odnosum and his wife spent the first two weeks of the full-scale war in their apartment in Mariupol. Both are disabled and completely helpless. They shuddered with the house during every explosion. They saw through the window how everything around them was burning and collapsing. On March 11, volunteers moved them to the Drama Theater bomb shelter. On March 16, the couple almost died.

From there, Oleksandr on crutches and his wife with a walker walked under fire searching for a safe place. They spent the next 43 days in another basement. Then there was the hospital in Nikolske and the veterans’ home in Donetsk... It was not until August 2022 that they were able to get to Poland and reunite with their daughter...