B.C. Ukrainian woman fearful for grandparents trapped in Mariupol
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A B.C. Ukrainian woman is growing increasingly worried after losing contact with her grandparents in the besieged port city of Mariupol more than a month ago.
A Ukrainian B.C. woman has not heard from her grandparents in the besieged city of Mariupol in over five weeks, and is growing increasingly worried for them as the Russian siege continues.
Anastasiia Cherman is from Mariupol, and currently a student at the University of Winnipeg.
She told Global News she has been hoping for word about her grandparents, Natalia and Gennadiy, who have not been in contact with the family since March 3.
“They told me, ‘Don’t worry everything is fine. We hear somewhere far away there are shots and bombs, but it’s far away.’ Don’t you worry, that was their main message. But in the matter of a couple of days we lost any way to talk to them,” Cherman said.
“I don’t know how they are, I don’t know if they are OK, if they are safe, if they have food. If they hurt. I don’t know anything.”
About 120,000 citizens remain trapped in the city, which used to be home to more than 430,000 people.
Mayor Vadym Boichenko said 33,000 people have been taken to Russia or the Donbas region.
Another estimated 21,000 civilians have been killed as of April 12, he added.
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