“We barely made it, there were lots of elderly people among us,” 74-year-old Nikolai Pavlo, who had been hiding in his basement with scant supplies for weeks, told Reuters. “The trip was devastating. But it was worth it.”
Many who arrived in the Ukraine-controlled city of Zaporizhzhia on Sunday say they left at night, taking “secret detours” to avoid Russian checkpoints and fearing every moment of the journey. They told of blinding fear living under constant bombardment and of hastily buried family members they left behind, and what was for many a tough decision to finally flee.
Russia now controls much of the strategic port city while fierce fighting continues for control of the Azovstal steel works factory, where an untold number of soldiers, civilians and dead have been trapped for weeks.
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