Ukrainian Mariia Moskalenko has spoken about the “horror” of seeing photographs online of her family home in Mariupol destroyed by Russian bombing a matter of days after her parents fled the city. The 28-year-old had been regularly checking a local news channel for updates of her neighbourhood and was “shocked” to discover her parents’ building had been destroyed.
“It’s so hard to believe this is happening… the Russians are destroying everything,” she said. “Before the invasion, Mariupol was a very beautiful place.
“There had been a change in local government and a lot of money had been put into the city to build new parks, new schools and stuff like that. It’s our taxes you know, my money which I worked hard for and which was used to build those houses, those roads, those parks – and now they are all destroyed.”
