Gennady Orbu stayed in the shelled city for 21 days.
Gennady Orbu, a well-known ex- Shakhtar footballer and coach of the FC Mariupol Academy, spoke about leaving the ruined city.
“Only yesterday I escaped from Mariupol and drove to a safe area. Thank God I am alive and well with my family. I was in Mariupol on the 21st day of the war. Everything happened spontaneously. There was no communication, we did not know where and when the green corridors were opened. Friends helped us with cars, and in the morning we decided to go at our own risk. There was a convoy, about a hundred civilian cars, we joined them and went. All I took with me was a pair of tracksuits, sneakers and documents. .
We were sitting in the basement of an apartment building. There were about two hundred of us there. There were no communications at all: no light, no water, no gas. The most important task was to feed the children and his wife. All the people rallied and helped each other, shared what was. When the gas was turned off, the food was cooked over a fire. Mostly cereals, potatoes. There was no meat. They stood in line for five hours under grenade launchers to collect at least two cans of drinking water, “Orbu was quoted as saying by fanday.net.
We will remind, on February 24 the president of the Russian Federation Putin made the urgent statement on carrying out special military operation in the territory of Ukraine, having begun large-scale invasion of the Ukrainian cities.
Mariupol is located in the Donetsk region and with the start of hostilities was subjected to massive shelling by Russian troops and was almost completely destroyed.
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