Anzhelika worked at Mariupol Hospital No. 4, in the COVID department. On 25 February 2022, she came to work and stayed... until April. To have something to drink, water was drained from boilers, and snow was collected. There were 62 people in the department. 

‘We cooked on the street under the bombardment. When the windows were blown out of the hospital due to russian shelling, we placed the patients in the corridor. The beds, we were jumping from wall to wall. Most of all, we were afraid of enemy planes. People were freezing and dying. We wrote notes about who died. Our manager went to fetch water and did not return. He was killed. Every day, the russians destroyed the houses of civilians. Many people were referred for surgery. 

There was no food, no water. I opened saline and glucose. I poured 50 grams each. There were not many solutions. We lived one day at a time. The worst thing was at night.

We were evacuated on 10 April. We walked over the dead bodies. We were placed on an armoured personnel carrier and taken away,’ said Anzhelika, a resident of Mariupol.