Under constant bombardment, without power or water, and unable to collect the dead from the streets, residents of the besieged Ukrainian port are focused solely on survival
Russia’s siege of the city of Mariupol resumed in the dark hours of the morning, residents said on Thursday, at around 3am. “The windows are shaking. It’s fucking early today,” resident Angela Timchenko posted on Facebook. She described Russia’s latest bombardment of the city – now in its ninth day – as a “heavy downpour”. She added: “I think about where to find some tea and a drop of sugar.”
It was “frosty outside and fiercely cold” inside Mariupol’s apartments, which are without heat. There was – as she put it – “no bitch snow, which means there will be no water”. Earlier in the week the city’s residents collected snow to drink. Without running water, Timchenko said, she was struggling to feed her family. “Tell me, is it possible to bake an egg in foil? I have six of them lying around. Kids would have had their breakfast,” she wrote.
