or drink for days. she couldn't mentally handle it. we had to feed her intravenously. another boy, a six—year—old with shrapnel in his skull, described without tears or emotion, watching his mother burn to death in their car after it was hit. he then said, "dad, buy me a mum, i want someone to walk me to school". what is happening in mariupol is a humanitarian disaster, even perhaps a war crime. 90% of the city's buildings have been damaged or destroyed in blanket russian shelling. after last week's destruction of a theatre where more than a thousand people were said to be sheltering, reports that an arts school with more than 400 people inside has also been attacked. at the hospital, vladimir wanted to tell me about his daughter, natasha, and his granddaughter dominika, whose picture he almost caressed on his phone. they were both killed by a russian shell inside mariupol.