Dmitry Yurin, a resident of Mariupol, was able to escape from the besieged city by sea. In order to do so, he had to swim about four kilometers in 2.5 hours and get out in a neighboring village. The guy's story is told by The Guardian.
The man was at home on March 16 when the Russian Federation launched an airstrike on the Drama Theater in the center of Mariupol.
"I saw bodies and pieces of bodies. I pulled out one woman, then a girl, then a boy. All were wounded. The boy's legs weren't moving. He was screaming. My hands were shaking. I was covered in blood," Dmitry said.
After that he returned to his hiding place and decided to flee the city. The man put on his fishing pants and found four empty five-liter bottles, which he tied around himself. In the evening he went to the beach, walked along it for a while, then dove into the water and began to swim.
The man swam for almost two and a half hours and covered four kilometers. He reached the shore near the village of Melekino, where he was sheltered and fed by a married couple of pensioners. The next day Dmitry was able to board a minibus to occupied Berdyansk, and from there he evacuated to Ukrainian-controlled territory.
