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Mansur Mirovalev

‘We waited for death’: Mariupol siege survivor recounts ordeal

Sergey Vaganov and his wife Iryna [File: Courtesy of Sergey Vaganov]

Vinnytsia, Ukraine – After days and nights of incessant bombardment, Sergey Vaganov thought that death would bring relief.

The 63-year-old retired photographer and his wife Iryna, 62, spent those days in a one-bedroom apartment in central Mariupol, the southern Ukrainian city of 430,000 devastated by more than two weeks of Russian air raids, cruise missiles and artillery attacks.

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