As a missile hits a Kyiv apartment building, survivors lose a lifetime's possessions in seconds
Residents of a Kyiv apartment building are salvaging what they can a day after a Russian missile attack set it ablaze, tore off parts of its facade, and gouged a crater next to it
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — With trembling hands and labored breath, Serhii Slobodiannyk meticulously searched his fire-damaged apartment, seeking to salvage any of his family's treasured belongings following a Russian missile attack on Kyiv.
“Everything I had worked for over 30 years was destroyed in less than a second,” says Slobodiannyk, still dressed in the clothes he managed to throw on in his burning apartment Tuesday.
He and his wife, Olena, had moved into the building in Kyiv's Solomianskyi district in 1984. Now the structure is uninhabitable — ravaged by fire, part of its facade torn off, and a huge crater gouged next to it by the missile that struck at 7:40 a.m.
Two of the building's residents were killed and 54 were injured in Tuesday's bombardment that also killed two others elsewhere in the capital. The barrage was part of Russia's recent winter campaign against urban areas in the nearly 2-year-old war.
