Photos: There Were Bodies of People, While Children Were Screaming and Crying: What a Citizen Who Left Mariupol Reported

Checks at the exits of Mariupol. Local residents who fled the city told RIA Novosti that they had been hiding in a basement for 15 days.

“There are no houses on the road, nothing, everything was burned, there were dead bodies of people, soldiers lying down, children were screaming, crying, we walked under gunfire, barely reached the buses, this time the Azov troops were simply hiding behind us, we were their living shield,” said one of the residents who emigrated from Mariupol.

The media has presented a photo series depicting the area exiting Mariupol.