Russian forces captured the city in May, after a siege lasting nearly three months
Mariupol’s strategic location on the Sea of Azov made it a prime target in what Moscow calls the “special military operation” that it launched in Ukraine on Feb. 24 last year.Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion delivered straight to your inbox at 7 a.m., Monday to Friday.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“People lost everything. Everyone’s kind of strange now, angry. I don’t see a lot of kindness out there,” the 65-year-old said in interviews conducted near her old home, now rubble, and where she now lives, ahead of the first anniversary of the war.Article content They clung on for two more months, reluctant to abandon their home of 20 years even though there was no electricity, gas or running water. Their son Yevgeny and his family fled to Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014.
For weeks after their deaths, the young couple lay in makeshift graves outside the building. “Until they were reburied in August, they were buried in the courtyard here the whole time. It was kind of creepy for me,” she said.Still traumatized by what she and her husband have lived through, Bushlanova said life in Mariupol was starting to look up a bit with the city’s Russian-installed authorities building some new apartment blocks.
After moving in July, Tatiana and Nikolai tried to make themselves comfortable in their temporary accommodation, re-arranging salvaged furniture and putting up their family photographs which they had managed to save.
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