In the deep, dark labyrinth of tunnels beneath Mariupol’s Azovstal steel works, new mother Hanna filmed in the gloom as she and her baby sheltered there with some 1000 more for over two months.
In the end, those civilians submerged in this subterranean hell, seeking shelter after the Russian besiegement of Ukraine ’s southern port city at the start of the war, were surviving on a spoonful of pasta, salt and water as relentless bombs obliterated this dank last bastion of ferocious resistance.
“The children were acutely hungry,” she says. “They drew pictures of food.”
