President of the National Committee for Sports of the Disabled of Ukraine Valery Sushkevich conveyed the words of Paralympic athlete Yaroslav Semenenko, who caught the start of a full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation in Mariupol.

The swimmer, who competed at the Paralympics in Tokyo last year, spent 21 days in the basement of his house in Mariupol. He told not only me, but also European journalists, that bombs were falling almost every minute.. They had a small, stale bun and ate it for 21 days.. There was no water. Yaroslav Semenenko, without two arms, and his disabled wife, ran out of the basement and looked for snow to collect in a bucket, tamp down with their feet, melt, and then somehow drink.

And around the house there was practically no place where the corpses of people lay. They took a chance, left the shelter under the bombs, jumped into their car, and drove out of Mariupol. There were proposals to join the convoy that was going to Zaporozhye too, but they did not agree. And then they found out that the Russians shot at the convoy.... " com.

Recall that on February 24, Russian President Putin made an urgent statement about conducting a special military operation on the territory of Ukraine, launching a large-scale invasion of Ukrainian cities..

The destroyed Mariupol was under siege by the Russian army for several months, and on May 21 it completely came under the control of the invaders.

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Earlier it was reported that football fields were shown in Mariupol after the city was occupied by Russians.