Defender of the Ukrainian national basketball team Ilya Sidorov told how his family survived under shelling by Russians in Kharkov.

" It was scary. The first 10 days we were sitting in the basement, when we realized that the situation was only getting worse, we decided to go somewhere. Now everyone is in conditional safety. Father and brother in Ukraine, now in Kyiv.

Mom with two grandmothers and a dog traveled an unrealistic path from the Dnieper, they stayed there for another 2 weeks after they left Kharkov, and then went to Slovakia by car,"

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..

Ukrainian troops continue the counteroffensive in the Kharkiv region and try to push the invaders to the border.

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The previously famous Ukrainian athlete showed how they survive in Kharkov destroyed after shelling.