In occupied Mariupol, preparations for the heating season failed

Electric heaters that cannot be turned on were issued in occupied Mariupol. Preparation for the heating season failed.

This is reported in the Telegram channel of the Mariupol City Council.

“In order to get out somehow, the collaborators distributed electric heaters to residents. But people still don’t have electricity, and where there is, fires start due to heavy load,” the report says.

The city council noted that only since the beginning of autumn there have been 75 fires due to a crisis in the power grid, because the occupiers shot it themselves during the blockade. Collobrants even announced on local television that heaters cannot be turned on together with other electrical appliances.

“We’re freezing! Help!” In Mariupol, people live in apartments without windows and heating

On the eve of winter, residents of temporarily occupied Mariupol are literally begging for help. The occupiers, who razed the city to the ground, did not create any conditions for those who remained alive and did not manage to evacuate.

Residents of multi-apartment buildings, which have neither functioning heating systems nor windows, no longer hesitate to hang huge posters with the words “Help!” This was reported by Petro Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol.

People who live at the address of st. Metallurgiv, 37 are not afraid to violate the propaganda picture of the invaders, who are trying in every way to praise the “Russian peace” in Mariupol. On the eve of winter, the city is completely cut off from heating systems, residents are in despair.

“The heating season from the occupiers is in full swing. Fury. Only fury,” Andryushchenko briefly described the situation.

We will remind you that Andryushchenko has already highlighted the terrible conditions in which the people of Mariupol live under temporary occupation. The hostages of the “Russian world” are not prepared for winter, and the “authority” has no idea how to provide people with basic comfort, at least to create a picture in the propaganda media.

In the village of Mangush, Mariupol district, the invaders began to issue the first Russian passports to locals. In illegal documents, the city of Mariupol of the so-called DPR is indicated as the place of registration.

The Russian occupiers launched six rocket attacks on Pokrovsk, Donetsk region. Three of them got into school.

Deputy Head of the Office of the President Kyrylo Tymoshenko announced this.

According to his information, another rocket hit the private sector of the city.

“The consequences of these hits and the location and consequences of two more flights are now being determined,” Tymoshenko wrote.

An extraordinary meeting of the commission on technogenic and environmental safety and emergency situations was held, during which the information of the Kramatorsk district branch of the “Donetsk Regional Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine” was reviewed on the current epidemic situation in the city and the dynamics of the incidence of COVID-19.

Last week, 87 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 were registered in Kramatorsk. For comparison, 70 people fell ill in the previous week, the increase in morbidity per week is 24.29%.

At the same time, vaccination against coronavirus continues in the outpatient clinics of the primary medical care center. To receive the vaccine, residents of the city should contact their family doctors or the nearest dispensary. Since the beginning of martial law, 3,310 people have been vaccinated in Kramatorsk.

The epidemic process has a tendency to intensify and requires the adoption of immediate anti-epidemic measures, so the commission calls on the heads of enterprises, institutions and organizations of the city of all forms of ownership to ensure compliance with the mask regime in places of mass gathering of people, in particular in public places, in the sphere of trade and household services of the population, public food, public transport, and also reminds of the need to observe social distancing, first of all, in closed rooms, at least 1.5 meters between visitors.

Mariupol This one word brings pain to Ukrainians: for the unborn, the killed and those who survived it all. Now there are ruins on the place of a flourishing city. And the once happy residents of high-rise buildings have now escaped from bombed-out basements and are afraid of every loud sound.

Alina and her husband Bohdan had their own business in Mariupol. Six-year-old daughter Adelina was fun for her parents and grandparents, who lived not far from the young family. Before the very beginning of the war, Alina and her daughter went to Krakow, where her younger sister lives. On February 22, they returned home – they did not believe that the war would begin.

And at half past five in the morning, the family woke up to loud explosions.

The first day of the war

At five in the morning, Alina received a phone call from a family friend, the owner of a business center a few minutes’ walk from their home. There was a deep and reliable bomb shelter, where Alina went with Bohdan and her daughter.

I remembered the year 2014: then they were shooting in the Eastern district. But we didn’t go down to the basement, because it didn’t fly for us.

The bomb shelter had not been prepared, so on the first day all its new occupants cleaned, laid, brought in pallets and even sofas to make it comfortable.

— The first night there were more than 50 of us. Who was asleep, who was awake, everyone was afraid of the sounds of shots that did not stop. It was cold in the bomb shelter, even though we turned on the heaters, – the woman recalls. — In the morning, some people left, but many stayed. And we decided to stay, because it couldn’t last long…

On the first day, shops stopped working, looters took absolutely everything from them. The food people left at home was moved to the bomb shelter – everyone ate small portions twice a day, just to dull the feeling of hunger.

For a month, 50 people lived in the basement, and a third of them were children from four to ten years old. The square footage of the new house was like an ordinary three-room apartment, but people miraculously managed not to quarrel, – recalls Alina.

In such a composition, a division of responsibilities quickly appeared: while someone looked after the children, another prepared food, someone was sent to get water, and someone lit a fire. It was a large coordinated organization.

Everyone tried to get along, because they understood: the war is going on in the streets, if we start a war in the basement as well, then it will be the end of us.

That’s how they lived. When the electricity went out, it got very cold. To illuminate the bomb shelter, it was necessary to charge ring lamps from car batteries under fire. And water was taken wherever they could: from hospital cisterns, puddles, rainwater, and even snow was good, because everyone wanted to drink, and they also cooked food on it.

Under airstrikes

The office building under which people were hiding was targeted by the Russian Grad four times. Half of the building was destroyed by one of them.

– Usually, when the plane was flying, we heard a sound and knew that there was going to be an impact. And once it was the other way around: at first we heard an explosion and didn’t have time to go down. That day was sunny and spring-like warmth. Many people came out of the basements, children were even playing.

Then the higher forces saved all the residents of the office center, because no one was injured. But Alina’s husband was going to fetch water with a friend at that time and was near the house into which the projectile flew. The men were saved by helmets and the fact that they decided to go around the same house instead of taking a shorter route.

But the woman who lived in the basement of that house wailed over the ditch in which her three children were playing a few moments ago. They were able to pull out only the body of one son.

– After that, our children did not leave the bomb shelter for more than a week.

Every day the airstrikes intensified, and people could not even go out to light a fire and eat. And the food, by the way, was also running out. The Armed Forces of Ukraine, which stood next to the bomb shelter, could lead everyone to Azovstal. But every day was dangerous, and the Ukrainian military asked to wait.

— One morning we decided to sit down and drive towards the center. There were eight cars, each with a child. We passed two roadblocks, and at the third we were stopped by our Ukrainian military. They say: “Are you crazy?! Wherever you go, there are battles!”

We were told either to go to the bomb shelter, or in general to the side of the so-called “DРR”. They advised us to sit down and pray that it wouldn’t come at us, because the Russians had already noticed the cars.

Alina remembers: they returned with the windows down and waved their hands so that the Russian troops would not shoot at them.

Six-year-old Adelina turned gray

Alina’s parents had their house outside the city. They spent all the airstrikes there, but when it became dangerous to live there, they had to leave. On the way, they survived the “DPR” checkpoint. There, Alina’s father was stripped naked, and guns were found in the car. The parents were almost killed then, but they got away with discarded cartridges.

They were sheltered by complete strangers – they simply invited them to their old house with a stove. One day, a “green corridor” was announced in the city. The cars drove along the blocked roads, and somehow by chance Alina noticed her parents’ car near the abandoned house. – The people who sheltered my parents came out and invited us to their house. We stayed with them for four days: the first days we shot on the left bank, near the coast. On the fourth day, we woke up to explosions. Our only shelter was the bathroom, because it had no windows.

We spent over six hours there without leaving. They sat and listened: did it fly into our house. The people in the building found themselves in the line of crossfire: the Russians were attacking from the sea, and the armed forces were knocking them out of the city. When the street fighting started, bullets just flew around the house. For Adelina, we put a fur coat in the bathroom. From stress, the child lost consciousness, and also… turned gray.

Evacuation Because of the sounds of the cannonade of battles, the residents of the house did not immediately hear that someone was knocking at the door. When the stranger spoke Ukrainian, it became calmer. The military officer of the armed forces asked whose car was standing by the road: they needed to take out the wounded. They promised to return it in two hours – the man had to climb the specified slope after her. In a few hours, Bohdan went to get the car, but the fighting became even stronger. Suddenly, the father, who had gone out for a smoke break a few minutes ago, flew into the house and said: the military is giving them 20 minutes to evacuate, because a full sweep will begin soon.

Bohdan returned almost at the last moment: he shouted that he must flee immediately. So two cars flew out of the yard of the house, which became a temporary shelter, under constant fire.

– I covered my daughter with blankets and tried to hug her so that she could not see everything that was happening around her.

The sea boulevard was completely littered with corpses. Every square meter is a body. Someone without a head, someone completely torn.

They wanted to return to their native apartment: at the moment when they could already see their house, an enemy armored personnel carrier pointed its muzzle at the residents’ apartments.

While leaving the city, they wanted to arrest Alina’s father at an enemy checkpoint: the Russians did not like something in his documents. To interview everyone, the occupier got into the car where Alina and her daughter were.

Adelina, by the way, knew everything about the situation: her relatives spoke frankly with her daughter, naming the path of the Russian ship, discussing the occupiers and everything that was happening around. So when the Russian approached the car, mom managed to ask Adelina: “Don’t say a word, please.”

But when he got into the car with us, she asked: “Mom, are these orcs?” Thank God he didn’t hear it.

When it came time to filter, they were lucky enough to settle in an abandoned house. The Internet sometimes caught there, so everyone started cleaning their phones. Everyone had acquaintances and friends from Azov, so everyone looked at every page on the social network, YouTube and tried to get rid of everything that could compromise.

The filtering took place at the local occupation police station, which was established there since 2014. After searching phones, checking for tattoos and taking pictures from all sides, the occupiers also took a palm print and issued a certificate – you can leave.

The road to safety

We had to go through Russia: and there they mocked the Ukrainians as best they could. They waited for 17 hours to cross the border with Russia, and then stood for another five hours to finally enter the territory of the aggressor.

In Rostov, they spent the night with a friend of Alina’s father, who accepted everything adequately and did not support the war. Exhaling from what they had experienced, they went to Moscow, because they had a long distance ahead of them. After that, they were on their way to Latvia, then to Lithuania, and finally to Poland.

My 17-year-old sister was in Poland for a month. All this time she did not know if we were alive. I only read the news about Mariupol being bombed.

Having already been in Europe, the realization began to come to everyone – there is no more work and no more money either. It became difficult for the daughter in a foreign country. And they took their cat out of Mariupol, but had to leave it with dad’s friend in Rostov. The daughter misses her favorite.

Once she approached her mother and asked for Volodymyr Zelenskyi’s number.

– Why do you need it, daughter?

– When the armed forces start shooting at Russia, I have to tell him not to shoot where my cat is.