Azovstal, the doctor: “Here we are dying of hunger and wounds, help us Turkey”

“The people here” in the Azovstal steel mill “are dying, some from bullets, others from starvation. The wounded are dying from lack of medicine and horrible conditions. We don’t have time and I don’t know if I have a tomorrow.” It is the desperate appeal launched in a video, released by consultant to the Ukrainian interior ministry Anton Gerashenko, of a doctor trapped in the besieged Azovstal. “Today is I no longer know which day of the war – the young man scans in the video message – I am a Crimean Tatar Muslim, before the war I studied as a medical doctor, here I help the wounded in Azovstal. Before the war I had never seen any dead, I worked in ambulance helping people in all possible ways but here – he says heartbroken – I am forced to see people dying in my arms, in 2022, just because there are no antibiotics to treat infected wounds “. “We are constantly bombarded by air, sea and land. Please – is the appeal addressed to Turkey – to proceed with the evacuation of everyone, including soldiers, from the territories of the Azovstal. Stop this nightmare. Only 263 miles away from you, across the sea, people are being destroyed who are only defending their land, their women and their children. We have not attacked anyone, you know from your history what it is like when they want to conquer your land and kill your people. Turkey and Ukraine – recalls the doctor – have always maintained close relations and supported each other. You and your country have great authority over the politics of our region, we don’t know who else to turn to and to whom to ask then I turn to you. I sincerely believe that God will not abandon us and that you will help us “.