Inf.1: Volunteers left their car on the already occupied territory [of the city of Mariupol’] and were taking round about ways as they were running [towards our house] (…) And they told us right away that we need to run, too. Well, this is about three kilometers in a straight line, but we were taking round about ways, so it was longer. And I will never forget how our dog was pooing as it was running – it knew that one has to run and one can’t stop even for a second…

Inf.3: …we were running among scattered bricks from the houses that were hit by bombs – piles of bricks…

Inf.1: Nobody would stop... prior to this day it was only my brother who would get out [of the basement] for water: he had to run for six kilometers for it. At first, they would bring water and sell it not far from us [our house], and there were hundreds of people standing in line for this water, and then many people died at that spot because the bomb exploded next to it.

Inf.2: And we saw these corpses. With no limbs. It was terrible.

Inf.1: So, it was that my brother had seen this hell, and we had not. And when we saw all this, too, it was a huge shock, it was like Apocalypse… There was a five-storied building, where one entrance was destroyed, and my mother, when she was running by it, heard cries from under the rubble…

Inf.2: They were crying for help, but nobody helped in our city. And nobody extinguished fire, nobody tried pulling people from under the rubble.

Inf.1: Many people died this way, whole families died: they were alive, but nobody saved them. There were rumors that one could hear people cry from the [destroyed] Drama Theater – but saving them would have required special equipment… (UJRI_093_ASh_LS_D)