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very scary. It was also scary when food and water finished and we had
nothing to give to our children. We tried to do what we could. When
it started snowing we raked it at night with our hands and melted it in
a bowl.
There was another basement where an old man and woman climbed
into it as there were terrible shootings. So Ukrainians set them on fire.
The old woman was very slim and she climbed out of the basement in
order to open the window and save the old man. She had burns on her
throat. Ukrainians were standing and laughing at them.
We did not speak to the Ukrainian Armed Forces because we were
frightened. They were so rude. We tried to avoid them. We were driven
into a basement and we did not see them. We were not allowed to light
candles in the basements. If they came and saw lights, there would be
more shooting from them”.

Testimony 9
Andrey Yurievich Kodak (36 years old).
Place of residence at the time of the survey —
Mariupol

“I was wounded in Mariupol on
21 March 2022 at the Mir Prospect
near the hospital № 3. We went to get
a boy who had his right arm broken
and the right side of his face burned.
His father covered the boy, but all the
family died: the boy’s mother, uncle
and grandmother. The boy’s father survived. He put the boy in the
car and sent him to the hospital. We were looking for all of them and
found the father first. He was shell-shocked and his back was pierced
by shrapnel. He was delivered to the hospital № 17. His acquaintance
from a different city called us and told where he was. In the morning
we went to get him and found him there in the hospital.
On a different day we again walked on the Mira Avenue. I found
a stroller and we put the boy in it. As soon as we came out on the road
and were opposite the shop ‘Lan’’, firing began from the machine gun

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