“I consider myself lucky,” he said. “There are elderly people who are trapped on high-rises because they can not use the stairs.” Avdeeva lived in the second city of Ukraine all her life. She is the director of research in a think tank, but since February she has been broadcasting the devastation caused by the war to 86,000 Twitter followers. Footage from the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol “There is no public transport. People live in underground subway shelters. “The only open stores are supermarkets and pharmacies,” he said. Its old hangouts have become spooky shipwrecks. Long after the end of this war, Ukraine will stay