Corriere della Sera (editor Andrea Nicastro) carried the moving news - one of the many published in Western media these days - of the announcement of the death of a woman from Mariupol: brother informed brother by letter that he had buried their mother in the courtyard of the shelter.
"It is a piece of paper and it arrived in Zaporizhzhya in the pocket of one of the 40,000 displaced people who left Mariupol last week. It is written by a man, perhaps a young man, perhaps a soldier defending the city, and addressed to his brother with his name, surname, telephone number, address and apartment number.
"The recipient of the message is Dmitry, but his brother addresses him by the nickname used in the family: Dima. At the beginning of the note there is the words 'Be informed', emphasized with an exclamation mark, and thus an appeal is made to anyone who gets hold of the letter. And this is what it says:
""Dima, the mother fell on March 9." She writes like that, as if she were a warrior too. "It happened without me even realizing it. The house was destroyed, burned down. Dima, I'm sorry I didn't save Mom! I buried our mother in the courtyard of the shelter." That's all."
Nikastro observed that "in Mariupol it is dangerous to stay outside the shelters, the bombs keep falling, but the son found the strength and courage to dig a grave in the frozen earth for a long time." The Italian editor also wrote that the letter was accompanied by "some kind of map" so that the recipient could find the exact spot of the burial.
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