Now they are being housed in a shelter for displaced people in Zaporizhzhia and intend to travel to the capital Kyiv within days. The family used to live near the Azovstal steel works - the site of a last stand by Ukrainian soldiers who only surrendered at the end of May after three months of fighting. Images of the diary were first posted online by Yegor's great-uncle Yevgeniy Sosnovsky, a photographer who documented the battle for Mariupol before leaving the city last month.
His sister Veronika, 15, who has a deep scar on her head, said she hoped the diary "will be useful to someone in the future". "Maybe he just needed to express himself so as not to keep all the emotions inside." His mother, Olena Kravtsova, a single mum, burst out crying when she first found the diary. In another, he describes how the family bandaged each other and went looking for water. In one drawing, the ceiling of his house is shown collapsing following the missile strike on their home.
There are armed men, tanks, a helicopter and exploding buildings. 'Everybody was crying' - On a sunny day in Zaporizhzhia, he plays badminton and rides his scooter - a world away from the images of destruction he scrawled in his diary with a blue pen. My sister's head is broken, my mum tore her hand muscles and has a hole in the leg," Yegor reads from another entry.
"I have a wound on my back, the skin is ripped off. The family have managed to flee to Zaporizhzhia - 100 kilometres (62 miles) across the frontline from devastated Mariupol.Ī missile strike had caused the ceiling of their home to fall in on them - all three suffered injuries. Also, my grandfather died on April 26th," Yegor says, reading from a page in his diary after escaping the now Russian-held city with his mother and sister. "I slept well, then I woke up, smiled and read 25 pages.