It all started with a Russian rocket that hit their house in Mariupol. Alexei, a car mechanic, he was buried in the rubble with his son, his wife and his motherhowever, managed to escape unscathed.
“I used a crowbar to pierce a brick wall. “It was a miracle that we went out,” he said.
It was the beginning of the war. They then headed to the Primorskiy area of ​​the city, where they thought they would be safe.
The next day, Aleksey returned to his neighborhood and found tents utter destruction.
Buildings burned. Injured citizens were walking around dizzy. Somehow he started saving lives.
At first he moved them from the besieged parts of the city to safer areas.
But as the fighting spread, he began helping people to leave the city altogether.
“It simply came to our notice then. We drove around a bomb crater. We continued to drive. “I saw people who had stopped and begged for help,” he said.
As they approached the outskirts of the city, they were joined by a convoy heading for a road they had been told was a humanitarian corridor.
Suddenly they heard the thunderous crash of the missiles falling in the adjacent field. Some of those in the convoy were hit.
“We stopped. “We were shocked and did not know what to do,” he said.
News soon spread that Aleksey was helping people leave Mariupol and began receiving calls from desperate people from all over Ukraineeven from Poland and Germany.
People started giving him money to help them, which he uses to buy fuel and repair any damage to his car from the shrapnel.
Although he and his family now live in a safe place, he he still goes to Mariupol as often as he canfilling his car with food, water and other supplies for people in need.
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