Darina and Svitlana: "So we fled from Kiev to reach Sardinia"

On Sunday 8 March Darina, a 26-year-old student, and her cousin Svitlana, an employee of a security company, fled Shevchencove, an "oblast" (suburb) of Kiev. The Russians are at the door. "I'm staying here, but you have to go away," says the mother to Darina, engaged to Marco Masia, 35, president of Ossese Calcio.

Thus began the escape of the cousins from the war. Direction Sardinia. They reach the Kiev station. "An incredible confusion. But at 6 pm we managed to catch the train to Lviv, almost at the border with Poland, where we arrived at 4 in the morning".

The tale becomes raw. "In Lviv - continues Darina - we entered a reception camp. Here too chaos". But they have a friend: "He drove us to Medyca, a town in Poland just after the border with Ukraine".

The welcome is excellent. "The Poles are kind - Darina specifies -. They gave us blankets and food".

Then the journey of hope continues: "We managed to reach Przemysl, a Polish city of 60 thousand inhabitants, 15 kilometers away from the border".

At this point for Darina and Svitlana the long train journey to Wroclaw, in the middle of Poland, where the girls stayed until Wednesday, before taking the train again and reaching Prague, where Marco Masia was waiting for them, arrived from Sardinia by car, in the company of his friend Salvatore.

"On Friday all together we arrived in Livorno, where in the evening we embarked for Sardinia - explains Masia -. Tired but satisfied".

On Sunday, however, a disappointment for him: the defeat of Ossese against Monastir for 2-1. Me is nothing compared to the happiness of having her Darina with her, who always has her mind in Ukraine.

"For three days I have not been able to communicate with my mother. The Russians are isolating us. I am worried. For my family and my country."