Five-year-old Arthur lost the ability to speak when the bombardment of Mariupol began.
Five-year-old Arthur stopped speaking the day the bombardment began in Mariupol, Ukraine. During the first few days of shelling, Arthur’s 23-year-old mother, Miranda, had to shield her terrified son from the bomb blasts with her body.
«It felt like I was being blown away by the blast wave and I almost tore my hands off, clinging to the handrails of the stairwells where we were hiding», she recalls. «We had no electricity, water, gas, heat or mobile connection. There was no bread or medicine.»
For two weeks, Arthur and his mother hid in a theater. Day after day, evacuation through human corridors was delayed.
«The most terrible thing», says Miranda, «is when I have to say to him: ‘In the morning, we will go to a kind world.
