i interviewed a familyjust days ago, and they were saying that they would spend the days in their flat hiding in the corridor between walls so they would be protected if it was the case of the residential area being attacked or being shelled. the nights would be spent in the basement because it was safer, but they would wake up at five o clock every day because that is when the constant shelling and the constant attacks would start. they would talk about having to melt snow because there was no water available. they would talk about having almost no food supplies, no medical supplies. people would come together in the streets to cook the very little they had. do we know how many people there are there? mariupol, before the war, had a population of about a50,000 people, it was thriving, it was booming, every single person. and it was beautiful, too, i have been there. exactly, and every single mariupol
and as a person? as a person, to be honest i am not ready to answer this question. as a person, i have to swim through the sea of pain. at the moment, the most intensive fighting in this war is going on in and around the besieged town of mariupol, where russia is using the same brutal tactics it perfected in chechnya and syria. mariupol is a key russian objective because it sits in the middle of a coastal strip which links crimea, which russia seized in 201a, with the eastern territories around donbas, which it hopes to capture now. the town has endured weeks of bombing and artillery attacks, and conditions there are said to be appalling. here in lviv, several hundred miles away, hugo bachega, a reporter for bbc 0nline,
has been meticulously chronicling mariupol s suffering. what we have been trying to do is establish a network of people that we can rely on to try to get those daily updates from the city that has been completely cut off from the rest of the country and the rest of the world. so these are residents who have managed to leave, they have been the eyes and ears of the world. but we do know that civilians are still being targeted on a daily, hourly, perhaps, basis, do we? exactly, and there are pictures and videos on some accounts that do manage to be sent by people who are in mariupol, and they send those accounts to their relatives and loved ones. the picture we get from those accounts is terrifying, because they talk about being under relentless attacks, day and night.
victories, achievements, alleged achievements outside. ukraine is a country which is still seen as the heartland of the russian historical mythology, the capital of kyiv. so this ancient state, which is still seen by russia as their historical legacy. will ukraine ever be able to forgive russia for what it has done? i can answer this question as a journalist first it s easier! i have heard so many opinions and so many accounts of so many people from various parts of this country, from lviv, from mariupol, from russian speaking mariupol, from russian speaking kharkiv, from kyiv, saying the same thing, it cannot be forgotten and it cannot be forgiven. very simple. ever? ever.
victories achievements, alleged achievements outside. ukraine is a country which is still seen as the heartland of the russian historical mythology, the capital of kyiv. so this ancient state, which is still seen by russia as their historical legacy. will ukraine ever be able to forgive russia for what it has done? i can answer this question as a journalist first it s easier! i have heard so many opinions and so many accounts of so many people from various parts of this country, from lviv, from mariupol, from russian speaking mariupol, from russian speaking kharkiv, from kyiv, saying the same thing, it cannot be forgotten and it cannot be forgiven. very simple.