‘Worse than hell’: Mariupol mother fears for her daughter as Russia lays siege to the Ukrainian city
Every night, Galina Odnorog waits for a 30-second phone call from her daughter, who is serving on the frontlines of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in the besieged city of Mariupol.
“Nastia lets me know she is alive and immediately hangs up the phone,” Odnorog told USA Today.
The half-minute call is all the time her 27-year-old daughter can spare as she and other fighters try to defend their hometown – a southern seaport of 430,000 where daily existence is increasingly tenuous for trapped civilians.