mariupol bring harrowing stories. vadim is a pensioner and is now staying in a lviv apartment paid for by his daughter. when the home he shared with his wife irina came underfire, they sheltered for 12 days inside a theatre. irina says they burned the chairs to boil water for the 600 children there. two days after vadim and irina left, the theatre was bombed. it's still not clear what has happened to all the children. "those people were killed for nothing, they're civilians", irina says. "mariupol is a russian—speaking city, everyone has relatives in russia and russia is killing its own people." "i'm glad putin opened my eyes as to who i really am," says vadim. "we are ukrainians."