“Now we are free, but we have to leave because there is shelling, and there are dead among the population,” said one of those on the road, as his van inched forward.
Fleeing shelling, civilians on Saturday streamed out of the southern Ukrainian city whose recapture they had celebrated just weeks earlier.
Poking her head out from the back, Svitlana Romanivna added: “We went through real hell. Our neighbourhood was burning, it was a nightmare. Everything was in flames.” “The total amount we have raised for ‘Grain from Ukraine’ is already about $US150 million [$220 million]. The work continues,” Zelensky said in his nightly TV address. “We are preparing up to 60 ships. All of us together do not just send Ukrainian agricultural products to those countries that suffer the most from the food crisis. We reaffirm that hunger should never again be used as a weapon.”
The reminder about food supplies was timely: Ukrainians were marking the 90th anniversary of the start of the “Holodomor”, or Great Famine, which killed more than 3 million people over two years as the Soviet government under dictator Josef Stalin confiscated food and grain supplies and deported many Ukrainians.
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