Ukraine War Couple Who Survived 45 Days Of Hell In War Torn Mariupol Tell Of Their Escape World News

A parking lot in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia is where those who managed to escape arrive. But to call them lucky would be wrong. They have experienced real terror. This is the story of the Burak. We spotted husband and wife Valeriy and Tatyana as they arrived. Tatiana, with her hand cast on a slingshot, and her husband Valerie, with a cast on his face covering a jaw that looked broken. Live news from Ukraine: Johnson and Troy were excluded from Russia. “The Prime Minister of Ukraine will visit the USA” Picture: Valeriy and Tatyana Burak as a young couple In the tent that serves as a shelter port as the displaced regroup, eat, pick up new clothes and wonder how they survived, we talked. Here is their story, in their own words. Tatyana Burak: My name is Tatiana Burak and I am an English teacher from Mariupol. We managed to leave Mariupol three days ago and then we arrived in Verdansk. And finally, yesterday we tried to get out of this small town to get to this place. But at one of the Russian roadblocks, we were stopped and our bus returned. But today’s effort was a success. Eventually, we arrived in Ukrainian territory and found some of our friends in Mariupol and here. So we are so happy to do it because we survived 45 days of hell in Mariupol. Valeriy Burak: My name is Valery Burak. We are husband and wife. Image: Sky correspondent Mark Stone interviews Tatyana and Valeriy Burak in Zaporizhia The failed escape Mark Stone: Thank you very much for talking to us. Let’s start from the beginning. Can you take us to the moment the Russians arrived? Describe it for me. What happened? Tatyana Burak: Well, you know that on February 24, Putin announced this special counter-terrorism operation as he called it. And we were actually planning to leave on that date. But you know, fate: our car just stopped. It did not work and we could not get out. So as soon as the bombing started, we were in our apartment in one of the neighborhoods, located on the left bank. It was probably the first time they started bombing and we decided to move to another neighborhood because our friends thought it was safer there. So we got in the car of one of our friends and drove to another neighborhood. Valeriy Burak: And the bombing was already in full swing and Russian planes started coming in and started bombing. Some of our friends’ houses had already been destroyed on the left bank. So our friends invited us to stay with them in other neighborhoods in the center where they thought it would be safe. But somehow, just before the bridge, our car was shot at from several places and so we were injured and our army helped us get to this hospital. Treatment in a bombed hospital Mark: Did you break your arm, Tatiana, and break your jaw Valeriy? Valeriy: Jaw, yes. Three of us were injured. Mark: And that was from a shell. Russian shell? Valeriy: Well, we do not know the origin of the bombing. You know, no one can say. Tatiana: At that time, there were a lot of Russian terrorist groups all over the city trying to create chaos, you know, and show people that there really is no way out. And our Ukrainian army was trying to find these groups. So we guess it was one of those groups. So we arrived at the hospital where we operated. Mark: And that was when the hospital was able to operate? Valeriy: It was able to work, yes. Mark: Is there no electricity there now? Tatiana: Nowhere. Valeriy: Two days after we got there, there was no electricity. Image: Valeriy Burak had a cast on his face covering a broken jaw Tatiana: There was a constant flow of injuries. Many people received different injuries due to all the bombings, because of the air bombs, everything and because of the tanks. Tanks also bombed everything. But in reality, because of all these attacks, almost all the patients in the hospital went into the corridors because there was a risk of getting injuries from the broken windows. Valeriy: The wards, you know, all the patients were in the corridors. Tatiana: Everyone wants to go to the occupied territories or to Russia. We had a conversation with the newly appointed chief doctor of the hospital and asked him if we could do an x-ray and he said: “No, there is no such thing in Mariupol, but I can evacuate you to Donetsk. [Russian occupied Ukraine] and you will receive help. ” But of course we did not want to go anywhere in the occupied territories. Valeriy: And, by the way, he was a military doctor, and I guess they’re going to make this hospital a military hospital. Tatiana: What I wanted to say, and to say to the whole world, is that our doctors are real heroes because the doctors, the surgeons, basically stayed in the hospital. They did not go. They operated for a month or more. They tried to help people as much as they could. Only after probably more than a month did they start thinking about themselves and their families and they started to leave. Mark: And when the bombs fell in those first weeks while you were stuck there. Just describe your feelings to me. Tatiana: It was horrible, because, before that, we could only imagine air bombs like we saw and heard them in World War II movies or heard about it from war veterans. But now that we were on our mattresses, on the floor, in the hallways and we heard the sound of the plane and then a horrible boom and the whole building… Valeriy:… the whole building started shaking… Image: Sky correspondent Mark Stone talking to the Buraks Tatiana: … shakes! Then, after one of the bombs fell, the windows in our wing on one side, all the windows were broken. And you know we had very low temperatures… Valeriy: δύο about two or three degrees Celsius in the building… Tatiana:… below zero. It was so cold because there was no gas, electricity, central heating and patients had to lie on their mattresses or beds. They had a blanket and that was it. It was so cold. It was horrible. And people were so scared because they thought all these bombs and different artillery – we don’t even know the names of all these systems – but it was horrible because we could see the high-rise buildings from the hospital windows burning. We heard people crying. It was horrible. And the constant flow of people trying to come to the hospital to find some shelter because they were scared. They brought children. were injured. And some people were killed. Some were injured. They were brought without legs, without arms and killed children. It was horrible. Read more: Boris Johnson, Liz Tras, Ben Wallace, Risi Sunak and Pretty Patel among the policies banned by Russia Bodies in the streets Tatiana: There was a week when they [the Russians] they were very active in the area where our hospital was located because it was right near the entrance to the city. And then the bombing moved a little bit and so people are trying to get out of the hospital to find their friends. to find their relatives because there was no cell phone connection. They could not get in touch with anyone. And so, the first thing people saw when we got out of the hospital were corpses on the streets. It was horrible. People, different people, different ages, sometimes whole families with children, because there was this shell or bomb and they just got in the wrong place and were killed. It was horrible. Valeriy: People came to the hospital and asked the chief doctor: “We have a body at home, what do we have to do with it?” And he said, “Just bury it. “Why are you coming here?” You know. Tatiana: So people started burying their relatives, they killed neighbors right in the yards or in the high-rise buildings and we saw all the graves. A school was destroyed Markos: And the school you both taught at was also destroyed? Tatiana: Yes, our school was built in 1936. Valeriy: And survived the German occupation. Mark: But did not that survive? Tatiana: No. A prosperous city Valeriy: You know, I remember Euro 2012 when my English friend was in Mariupol for a few days during the tournament and we took him to Mariupol and showed him the theater. We showed him the place where the British consulate once stood before the October Revolution, you know, more than 100 years ago, and he was pleasantly shocked that these things existed in Mariupol and we took pictures there. Tatiana: Our city was a prosperous city. Different parks, different buildings, many people having fun with their children. And we had some historical places, but now we have nothing because, the symbol of the city, the drama theater, was bombed and many people who took refuge in their basement were killed. Use the Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 1:25 Drive through Mariupol, which has collapsed since the war It is a ghost town. You can see the frames, blackened frames of nine-story buildings because they burned. And we do not even know how many people were killed inside because there is no way to find anyone because the whole building burned down. Many people were trying to find shelter in the basements of these buildings, and when the building was bombed or when a shell came, some people were killed in these basements because the building was destroyed and they could not get out. Valeriy: They were trapped. Mark: Do you feel frustrated with Europe? Valeriy: People like us, who were there, were shocked because Europe did not react, because we could hear that the number of victims during this siege, you know, is …

title: “Ukraine War Couple Who Survived 45 Days Of Hell In War Torn Mariupol Tell Of Their Escape World News " ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-20” author: “Brenda Harness”