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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Edd Dracott

Ukrainian couple describe escape from ‘real hell’ of Mariupol

A Ukrainian man who escaped Mariupol has described life in the city as “real hell” after he witnessed blood and body parts covering its streets and Russian bombs destroying his neighbourhood.

Victor Mayevsky, 62, is now safe in Poland with his 63-year-old wife, Valentina, after enduring weeks of “constant” shelling, freezing temperatures and severe food and water shortages in the besieged city in south-eastern Ukraine.

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