Before the war, Oleksandr Yaroshenko was the Chief Physician of the Regional Hospital. And with the start of the shelling, he took control of all hospitals in Mariupol. 

Helped people in shelters. He threw his main forces into evacuating Mariupol residents from the death trap. I didn’t think about myself; because of shelling, I had to swap three ambulances, which I drove around the city. He saw a lot of terrible things, but the most terrible thing was the number of deaths in Mariupol, which Yaroshenko named.

He sent one evacuation party after another. Having left the city, he bought several buses in Zaporizhzhia, which continued to travel to Mariupol and take people out.

And Oleksandr was the president of the Mariupol football sports club. His team was a kind of symbol that the city was indestructible and continued to fight.