Mariupol quickly descended into what one aid agency described as "hell", as Moscow's forces besieged the city. Amid the fighting, civilians had to scavenge for food and water - running water and electricity were cut off and communications collapsed. Many thousands were killed. Military checkpoints controlled movement in and out. Soviet-era Grad missiles - rockets launched from the back of military trucks in what is sometimes described as a "hailstorm" - hit the district where Oksana and her husband Dmitry have their home. "I couldn't catch my breath," she recalls, describing the devastation in Biblical terms. It was a tempest, she says.
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