Ballroom dance instructor Nazar Shashkov, 32, has made repeated journeys behind enemy lines to rescue his students and others trapped in his besieged hometown of Mariupol.
, ballroom dance instructor Nazar Shashkov, 32, says he would be “useless” with a gun.
“I was silent. I didn’t say anything,” he recalled, adding that the soldier eventually let him go but only after robbing him of his money and warning him that his next trip to Mariupol would be his last. farther west and at times splitting families, with many civilians remaining stuck in cities behind Russian lines or in the midst of Russia’s military push in the east. Humanitarian corridors have been stop-and-start, leaving some Ukrainians to stage their own rescue efforts.
Like many Mariupol residents, Shashkov said he had spent weeks sheltering in a basement, and was black from head to toe with dirt when he first made it out of the city with a small contingent of students and their family members on March 16.Lying down for the night at a refuge after his first proper meal in weeks, Shashkov said he couldn’t sleep.You’re thinking about the rest of your friends, and kids and students, not in such conditions as you right now,” he said.
“I tried, but it was useless,” he said, smiling at the memory of trying to cajole his mother into his van. “The Russian military tells them that Ukraine left them there. There’s no buses. That there is no help from Ukraine, that Ukraine doesn’t care about you,” Shashkov said.
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