David accepted Russia’s offer of evacuation, hoping to then escape via Belarus – until the authorities took away his passport
David spent eight months living in a Russian children’s home and was only able to get out thanks to a huge effort by his former youth club leaders, who had evacuated to Kyiv on the second day of the war, and a secret network of Russian volunteers, who have been operating in the shadows to help deported Ukrainians leave Russia.
David is a musically gifted teenager with a four-octave range. He said this fact passed his own mother by, but others recognised his musical promise. He became the only choir boy paid to sing in the Mariupol church. “After 1 March, there was no electricity and no internet and I understood that it was over,” said David, referring to the city. “The city was already divided. The people on the left bank had days, if not hours, to get out. I lived on the right bank.”David had been staying with his grandmother the night before the invasion. He stayed with her until 8 March – Women’s Day in Ukraine – when he decided to try to visit his mother as she would be waiting for him.
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