oh, maria sarah jenko is one of the residents of the seed city of mary pole, and she managed to get out. she's now in the village in ukraine's west. maria, thank you so much for joining us in this very difficult time. can you tell us a little bit more about your journey across the country? yes, sure. so i left my grand my and relative scenario po and they are right now they are, we can't get to them with no internet connection or they don't have any mobile network as me. i left here because i wasn't here when the war started. i was there for 2 days tonight under attacks on their fire, and finally managed to leave the city. and right now i'm in leaf, in the western part of ukraine. finally safe. what was the last you've heard from your family and friends back and maria paul. it was 4 days ago i heard from my grand mar, one made of the call 4 days ago in the morning. and since then nothing. and i'm desperately trying to reach out to them every, every day, like every hour. and it's still nothing it's. it's really that's great. i can only imagine. can you tell us whole bit more about your e

now when i get across and now it to maria, sarah jenko, i've been speaking to her on d. w. news over the past week. have a she had to flee her home in mario paul for the relative safety of the western ukrainian city of the v. a hi maria. welcome back. and thanks again for taking the time under these terrible circumstances. at 1st, some of our viewers may remember, but your grandmother is still in my old full. and the last time we spoke, you'd been unable to contact her for more than a week. and have you had any update on her situation now? hi, and thanks for heaven again. yes, i haven't heard anything from her for 11 days already. so still no connection with her or with the other relatives back leaving mary pal. however, yesterday we managed to get some updates from the neighbor who escaped the city 2 days ago and they didn't see my grandmother personally. however, they share they that to, while they are there they so the jordans in my grandma house raised, you know, every morning. so at least this basic information gave me and my family some hope that she's there, she's

and joining me now is maria sarah jenko from at mario paul, that's one of the cities that's been under siege for more than a week now. and she has left her home to escape to the western city of the v, and she joins me from there. a very warm welcome, maria. thank you so much for taking the time under these terrible circumstances. over the past few days, you've been speaking to my colleagues and you've told us your grandmother is still in mario pole. have you had a chance to hear from her and find out how she's doing? thanks for having me. unfortunately, i haven't heard from my grandma there are for a week already, and today's still nothing. so yeah. what a laugh is, hope and pray that she is alive and she's healthy. and have you been able to hear from anyone else who is still in the city? not much really because today i think in the morning the last cell tower was destroyed. but yesterday morning we were able to hear a some, you know, estimates from, from a few people. and they share that dissertation is really terrible. they still have nothing in terms of food. they don't have any hea

and earlier we spoke to maria sarah jenko, originally a resident of the besieged city of matthew polt. she's now left the city and is in western ukraine in the leaf. yeah, so investigation is a quieter base full. if we might say this horrible, these are a lot of people are trying to volunteer. for instance, yesterday we were calling are maybe hundreds of people who want to help with the community area and how to deliver it right here. and so are there are people who are we reading, camouflage, nash, or they are buying some medicines because they read the shortage of medicines in other parts of ukraine, specifically hemostatic or pain killers. and also, you know, people are trying to help whenever they want her and whenever they can. for example, yesterday i was calling maybe 1565 people who are approaching the biggest humanitarian, the center of the house in the beef. and a lot of how does come in from other countries, so we are trying to transfer it all the help right to key of to hark it to the cities who can receive the help unlikely. mary paul is not one of the seated who can actu