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Olena Halushka

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May 10

More horrible stories from the #Mariupol survivors #russianWarCrimes

Kateryna recalls her house was on the front line. It was shot at from every direction, burned multiple times, and remnants of other buildings, destroyed by air bombs, were scattered nearby /1

Within seconds, high-rise buildings were falling apart, private-sector houses were burning like torches, and people were losing their limbs amid shelling.

A 1.5-year-old child died from the explosion of Grad rocket system in her house /2

In the basement of a neighboring house, a woman gave birth. This "child of war" spent the first weeks of his life underground in unsanitary conditions.

The whole neighborhood was cut off from civilization. No communication, no information. "It's as if we didn't exist" /3

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Olena Halushka

@OlenaHalushka

May 6

Stories about #Azovstal defenders.
Oleksandr, 35, #Azov Regiment serviceman.
His mother Olena: We are from Kramatorsk. My son is a professional football player. He has 2 daughters. Younger girl was born on Jan 20 this year. He hasn't almost seen her at all (cries) /1

The connection is bad, only once a week they can send us a message. Someone sends SMS, and then the mothers and wives call among themselves to share the message. That's how we live, supporting each other /2

We think our boys are the bravest, strongest, and love Ukraine much. If they did not, they wouldn't be fighting in such conditions. This is horror. They don't tell us the truth, just write that all is ok & that they will not give up Ukraine to anyone
#SaveMariupol
#SaveAzov /3

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Olena Halushka

@OlenaHalushka

May 5

#Mariupol #Azovstal is a bleeding wound on Ukraine's heart.

"We do not need words, we need actions," mothers and wives of #Azovstal defenders say #SaveMariupol /1

Svyatoslav Siryi is 26, he's a serviceman of the #Azov Regiment. His mother says she's ready to go to #Mariupol on foot to be with him. During all this time they had only one short call & several correspondences. Svyatoslav plans to get married this year. He must be released /2

Now he is wounded but can walk. They don't have medicines. He said that the hospital was bombed when he was there. A fragment hit his face & legs. It was his fifth concussion. There are people seriously injured there too. They eat once per day, and he always feels hungry /3

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Olena Halushka

@OlenaHalushka

Apr 21

"We'd love to. But..."

The delivery of particular heavy weapons, jets, air & missile defence that Ukraine requests: "we'd love to, but Ukrainians don't know how to use advanced weapons", "we don't have them", "here are your short-range weapons" etc /1

Gas & oil embargo: "we'd love to, but there are no sources to substitute", "businesses will suffer", "everything will collapse"

Stopping the genocide, mass killings of civilians, mass deportation, mass raping, mass abduction: "we'd love to help, but what can we do?" /2

The delivery of humanitarian aid to people whom russians starve to death by int'l humanitarian organizations which received blns & blns of target funds for Ukraine: "we'd love to, but it's dangerous" /3

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Olena Halushka

@OlenaHalushka

Apr 20

One more heartbreaking story about russian airstrikes on #Mariupol hospitals.

Bombing of hospitals & ripped bodies - this is how Anastasia will remember the war. She is currently in Zaporizhzhia, receiving medical treatment assistance from the Mariupol humanitarian center /1

The war caught her in the Cheriomushki neighborhood. The basement was cold and crowded. She slept upright in the hallway.

Anastasia then moved to another shelter, but it didn’t protect her from sustaining a concussion and an open fracture of the arm /2

That day she went out to breathe, but an explosion erupted. She was injured, 4 people were torn to pieces. One child had his leg ripped off

The woman was placed in the Mariupol maternity ward. On Mar 9, they wanted to do the surgery, but an air strike on the hospital started
/3

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Olena Halushka

@OlenaHalushka

Apr 19

"I dug up my daughter from the stones"
"My grandkids burned alive"
"We were told not to look around as there were dead bodies"

Hundreds of citizens were killed when russians threw a bomb on the #Mariupol drama theater on Mar 16. Those who survived are sharing their stories /1

Victoria Dubovitska and her two children were in the projection booth. The blast was so strong that it hit the woman against the wall. Another wall was destroyed. Her 2yo daughter was trapped under concrete debris /2

"After the explosion, screams & moans filled the place, but my child stayed silent. This was the worst. Moments later I heard her voice. She shouted: ‘Mommy!’" - recounts the woman. Fortunately, she managed to dig her daughter out from the stones. The girl was alive /3

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