KYIV. UkraineGate . 8. September . 2022 | Ukraine News.
Host Andrii Bednyakov said that Mariupol has been living on a “powder keg” since 2014. But now the situation in the city is critical – people live in ghetto conditions. He told about this in an interview on Ramina Eshakzai’s channel “Hodyat shulky” .
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“People in Mariupol live very badly. Although they (Russians – ed.) say that they have started to build something there, it is a ghetto – when there is nothing, no light, no water, no food, no work. You come, you want to sign up somewhere, and they tell you: you have to go through 10 circles of this hell, pay everyone, give to everyone. These people came from Donetsk, where the Russian curators sent them there. Everyone has to. Do you want to go somewhere? Please pay. Do you want to avoid standing in line and go to work? Please pay. You have to pay for everything there. Space prices are simple. Not everything is in rubles there, there is also hryvnia. There they have a double-double, as they always do, they can’t decide,” – says the presenter.
Bednyakov said that he loved his hometown very much. Already living in the capital, he constantly went there with his family.
According to the presenter, the townspeople are used to living on a “powder keg” and constantly hearing the echoes of the war in the east.
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“We were on a kind of “powder keg”. We heard explosions. I came home and constantly passed various checkpoints, the military looked at the car, asked – where from? What? I mean, I saw all these roadblocks since 2014. I was in Mariupol very often and I heard explosions, even the walls were shaking. But people were already used to that, if it didn’t sound scary,” the host told about life in his hometown.
Bednyakov says that people got used to it and did not expect a full-scale war. And there were those who were waiting for “Russian peace”.
“I don’t know how many people, in percentage, were waiting for the “Russian peace”, but they waited and for some reason are still waiting. These are fanatics of the USSR – they are still waiting. I had close friends in Mariupol who were supporters of the “Russian peace”, but now they are starting to speak Ukrainian. Now they finally understand what is happening,” Bednyakov explained.
When the full-scale invasion began, the host was constantly in touch with the city, helping to evacuate people. Currently, he says that all his relatives have left the city, but he lost his mother there.
“And the most difficult thing is that I couldn’t go to my mother and say goodbye to her properly. I was at my mother’s 4 days before the war started, I was there all the time. Even now, I still haven’t imagined that she is gone. When I come to grave and see it, only then will I understand it. Now, to the end, I don’t even understand it,” he said.
According to Bednyakov, his mother is not listed in the lists of dead civilians.
“I don’t know about those who died in Mariupol, because no one was allowed there. And they did it deliberately. I was told that crematoria even went there, where people were burned. I just know for myself that my mother, who died there – her not in this list… How these lists are calculated – I don’t know. But, there are still many nearby villages. When I saw these 87 thousand – I just freaked out. My very close people are not there now, everyone has left. And it hurts me pleases,” the presenter said.
Source: Ukrgate