"I saw planes with stars on their wings. I saw dead bodies at the bus stops and how the houses were burning"

Andrii stayed in occupied Mariupol until March 18. He cooked food on a fire. He saw explosions and dead. He saw the houses burning. On March 18, Andrii and a group of other Mariupol residents risked leaving the city. 

 "We went to the village of Chervone. A grandmother in a wheelchair was pushed from Kerch Street. We went through the checkpoints. They undressed us, watched tattoos, things. The village was already occupied. Technique with Z. We were there for three days, then we went to Manhush, it's 20 km. russian Grad installations stood in the fields and shelled Mariupol. We saw a lot of cars and broken tanks.

We left, and in 10 days they began to bomb our district. There is only one wall left from the building where we were hiding," said Andrii, a resident of Mariupol.