90-year-old Olga Molibocha and her daughter managed to leave Chernihiv in northern Ukraine at the last moment.
Shortly after their departure a few days ago, Russian bombardment destroyed the bridge connecting Chernihiv to Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Local officials say it is no longer possible to evacuate civilians or transport humanitarian aid.
After arriving in the eastern Polish city of Przemysl, Molibocha said there was no water or electricity in Chernihiv, but that would not stop residents from defending themselves.
“We will defend ourselves to the end as long as we are alive,” Przemyslμικό’s train station told Reuters on Saturday. “We believe we will win!” He stressed.
Sitting in a wheelchair, with her dog on her knees, she says that the Ukrainians were attacked by their so-called “brothers”, their “older brothers” … “They attacked us and bombed us. They destroyed everything in our city. So many children were killed, so many women. All our houses were destroyed, they no longer exist. “We have no place to live,” he says with tears in his eyes.
Her daughter, Natalia Lukosina, expressed her gratitude to the volunteers who are helping to evacuate civilians from Ukraine.
“They brought us with the last convoy. “The next day the bridge was destroyed, as they say, and no one can leave (from Chernihiv),” he said. “There are still children there, many children. “I do not know how they will manage to survive.”
The mayor of Chernihiv, Vladislav Atroshenko, said on Saturday that 44 seriously injured people, including three children, could not be removed to safer places for treatment.
Speaking on Ukrainian television, he said about 130,000 people had been left without heating, electricity or water in Chernihiv, which he said was receiving heavy bombardment by Russian military forces.
Before the war, the city had a population of about 290,000, he said.
One month after the start of the Russian invasion, some 3.8 million people have fled Ukraine, with 2.3 million of them taking refuge in Poland.
US President Joe Biden met with some refugees during a visit to the Polish capital, Warsaw, yesterday. He even described Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “butcher”.
For his part, Putin described the invasion as a “special military operation” aimed at “demilitarizing” Ukraine and expelling “Nazis” from Russia’s neighboring country. Moscow has repeatedly denied launching attacks on civilians.
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