![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/ukrainian-mum-and-baby-trapped-underground-for-two-months-during-russian-siege/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/1_Hanna_Svytoslav_in_Azovstal_bunker_2.jpg&description=Hanna's harrowing testimony and footage forms part of a new BBC Panorama documentary, Mariupol: The People's Story, which tells the story of the "apocalyptic" invasion through those who lived itHanna with her baby in Mariupol's Azovstal steel worksIn the deep, dark labyrinth of tunnels beneath Mariupol's Azovstal steel works, new mother Hanna filmed in the gloom as she and her baby sheltered there with some 1000 more for over two months. In the end, those civilians submerged in this subterranean hell, seeking shelter after the Russian besiegement of Ukraine 's southern port city at the start of the war, were surviving on a spoonful of pasta, salt and water as relentless bombs obliterated this dank last bastion of ferocious resistance. 'The children were acutely hungry,' she says. 'They drew pictures of food.' The teacher, 25, only married a year, had said goodbye to her husband, Kyrylo, who had gone to fight and was stationed elsewhere in this warren of bunkers. Hanna had to say goodbye to her husband Kyrylo who was fighting Hanna's baby in the bunker He could only visit her and their son, Svyatoslav, twice, bringing nappies, food, and a book - Robinson Crusoe, her favourite. Tiny Svyatoslav was the youngest person left fighting for life in this isolated darkness, which quickly felt like an abandoned island. 'You wake up and realise this isn't a dream, this is your life, this is everything you have and maybe you'll spend your last days here,' Hanna recalls. 'When you're down there, time disappears. You can't tell day from night. 'The days feel like one big Groundhog Day.' She and her son were eventually evacuated after a bomb collapsed the works, burying them in rubble, killing others. Her husband, with his unit, was later evacuated after Russia 's bombardment finally claimed the courageous city in May. He is now a prisoner, and we are not using Hanna's surname for his protection. Hanna's harrowing testimony and footage forms part of a new BBC Panorama documentary,){kind=link}
Hanna’s harrowing testimony and footage forms part of a new BBC Panorama documentary, Mariupol: The People’s Story, which tells the story of the “apocalyptic” invasion through those who lived it
In the deep, dark labyrinth of tunnels beneath Mariupol’s Azovstal steel works, new mother Hanna filmed in the gloom as she and her baby sheltered there with some 1000 more for over two months.
In the end, those civilians submerged in this subterranean hell, seeking shelter after the Russian besiegement of Ukraine ‘s southern port city at the start of the war, were surviving on a spoonful of pasta, salt and water as relentless bombs obliterated this dank last bastion of ferocious resistance.
“The children were acutely hungry,” she says. “They drew pictures of food.”
The teacher, 25, only married a year, had said goodbye to her husband, Kyrylo, who had gone to fight and was stationed elsewhere in this warren of bunkers.