A motor enthusiast, it is clear Aleksey sees his car as the true hero in this story
"I used a crowbar to break through a brick wall. It was a miracle we got out.”
The next day, Aleksey, a former submarine engineer who now repairs cars for a living, drove back into his neighbourhood and found scenes of utter devastation.“Those poor people: wounded, desperate people, walking along the road,” he said.He had gone there in search of warm clothes. But it was people he brought back.At first, he took them from besieged parts of the city to safer areas.
“I saw a stream of cars racing out of the city and I told my family, let's get into the car, let's leave everything behind and get out of this city," he said. Five of the cars in the convoy, including Aleksey's, made it to a village where many others who had escaped Mariupol were sheltering. Some of the cars in the convoy never made it.“I remember the words of a great human being, Winston Churchill: 'War is when innocent people die for the interests of others,'" he said."I decided that, under these shells, under these Grad missiles, living or dead, I would continue rescuing our innocent people.
“I filled the car with food and went to the addresses without knowing if the building would be intact or destroyed. People began to give him money to help them, which he uses to buy fuel and fix any damage to his car from the shrapnel and debris.Aleksey and his family are now staying with relatives in another city.
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