FC Mariupol Academy coach Gennadiy Orbu was able to escape from the besieged city.

Orbu spoke about this in an interview with FanDay..

" Thank God that he is alive and well with his family. 21 days of the war I was in Mariupol. When the shelling of Mariupol began, we were sitting in the basement of an apartment building. There were about two hundred of us there." In general, there were no communications: no electricity, no water, no gas, the main task was to feed the children and wife.

All people rallied and helped each other, shared what was. When the gas was already turned off, food was cooked on a fire. Mainly cereals, potatoes. There was no meat. We stood for five hours in line under grenade launchers to collect at least two eggplants of drinking water.

I saw the bodies of killed civilians, just lying on the street.

We tried to leave the basement less, only when it was necessary to look for something..

With the evacuation, everything happened spontaneously. There was no communication, we did not know where and when the green corridors were opened. Friends helped us with the cars, and in the morning at our own peril and risk we decided to go ourselves. There was a convoy, about a hundred civilian cars, we joined them and left. All I took with me was a pair of tracksuits, sneakers and documents,” he said..