'It was killing me': Mother accuses Russia of forcibly deporting her son from Ukraine
Kyiv accuses Russia of blocking efforts to send humanitarian aid to Mariupol, or buses to evacuate civilians to Ukrainian-controlled territory. The city has beenfor nearly two months, and thousands have been killed, according to local officials. Remaining residents have been left with virtually no food, water or electricity.
Demish, an accountant before the war, said she had spent 34 days hiding in a basement in Mariupol with her husband, his two daughters and his parents. After resorting to melting snow to make drinking water, they finally had had enough and took their chance to escape to the central city of Zaporizhzhia in a convoy of cars on March 29.
After that, Demish had no communication with her son, an engineering student, for days. Then on April 4, Yuri sent her a message via the Viber messaging app, which is widely used in Ukraine, in which he said: “We are forcibly going to Russia today.” “Not knowing where my son was, it was killing me,” Demish, speaking in Russian, told NBC News in a phone call from the city of Dnipro, in central Ukraine, where she moved after escaping to Zaporizhia.After going silent again for more than a week, Yuri finally called his mother on April 15 to say that after three days on the train, they made it to the village of Semyonovka in Russia’s Nizhegorodsky Oblast or district, some 675 miles northeast of Mariupol.
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