在俄罗斯占领的奥列什基城镇已经两个月没有任何食物供应时，玛丽亚·扎哈夫科决定她和丈夫必须离开。
Nearly two months had passed without any food deliveries to the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky when Maria Zakhavko decided she and her husband had to leave.
出发前，他们把自己能收集到的食物送给了扎哈夫科年迈的父母，因为父母身体太虚弱，无法踏上那段布满地雷和尸体的12英里道路前往下一个城镇。他们只能等待疏散——如果疏散真的会来的话。
Before setting out, they dropped off the food they had been able to gather for Zakhavko’s elderly parents, who were too frail to make the 12-mile trek across mined and corpse-strewn roads to the next town. They had to wait for an evacuation—if one ever came.
“很快见，”扎哈夫科回忆说，带着希望。然后，8月17日，她和丈夫踏上了通往安全的第一段旅程，这段旅程最终变得比预期更长，他们清楚地知道，不是每个人都能安全到达。
“See you soon,” Zakhavko recalled saying, hopefully. Then, on Aug. 17, she and her husband set off on the first leg of what would become a much longer journey to safety, aware that not everyone made the trip safely.
奥列什基曾是第聂伯河南岸人口24,000的城市，如今已成为人道主义危机的中心。
Once a city of 24,000 people on the southern bank of the Dnipro River, Oleshky is now at the center of a humanitarian crisis.