Roman Marchenko left Mariupol on Saturday with his family.
To reach the road that leads to Berdiansk then Zaporizhia, along which a fragile humanitarian corridor has allowed trapped residents to exfiltrate for a week, the shortest way was to go through the city center.
So, that morning, he made the trip flat out.
"It was shooting in all directions with machine guns and automatic rifles,"
says the forties, who evokes with a blank stare
"a street fight in which we no longer know who is who."
Arrived near the drama theater, which Russian forces bombarded on March 16 when hundreds of civilians had taken refuge there, he slowed down when he discovered a Ukrainian tank near which two soldiers were standing.
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“The streets were deserted,
describes Mr. Marchenko,
and I asked them if I could continue without danger.
They told me it should pass…”
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