“As a journalist, I was very afraid of being captured. I am a weak person, I was afraid to break down”

“We left on March 19. I could not eat anything for the last three days. The food was bitter because of the water. I could not drink tea. A three-litre jar of peach compote. I drank this syrup. The lack of clean water is a disaster, says Yuliia Harkusha from Mariupol. – What will happen to Mariupol? The left is gone, Cheremushky is destroyed. Where will we go back to? I am sure that a hundred thousand people died in Mariupol. It’s a desert there.”