On the facades of buildings near the stricken buildings, pulverized windows. The one that overlooks Oleksander’s children’s room on the ground floor is in a thousand pieces. “I’m shocked but it’s okay. There was the explosion, the windows broke. Now I’m covering them”, he explains. On Thursday evening, April 28, five missiles hit the Ukrainian capital, a first since mid-April, during the visit of UN Secretary Antonio Guterres: two of them fell on Chevchenkovsky, a central district of kyiv. .
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The target: a 25-storey residential building, and all around, the houses also suffered damage from the blasts. After the attack, neighbors gathered near the tent of the Ukrainian Red Cross : among them, Olga is still stunned. “I saw a ball of fire that bigshe describes. A very big fire, like an explosion! Me, I was in my room, near the wall, lying on my sofa. I didn’t realize right away, and there was the second explosion.”
“There the windows were smashed. I ran down the hall, the shards flew against the wall, my furniture broke.”
Olga, resident of kyivat franceinfo
“I’m very shocked, I still don’t understand what happened. That’s why I went outside”she adds, upset.
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Katerina is sitting on a bench, a hot drink in her hand. Her husband runs a hand through her hair to comfort her: she has injured her foot and fingers with shards of glass. “I was sitting by the window with my computer and suddenly, boom! I was stunned, it knocked me out, I jumped! The edge of the window fell off”she says, still very agitated.
“How did I flee? I don’t know. My husband arrived, he took me, I screamed. I was shocked, but now I’ve calmed down. Besides, I said: oh no It won’t happen to us again. To hell with Putin!”she concludes, angrily.
For his part, UN Secretary General Antonio Gueterres was placed “safe”but said to himself “shocked”. For President Volodymyr Zelensky, these bombings were aimed at “humiliating the UN”and the Ukrainian Foreign Minister denounced “a heinous act of barbarism”. Ten people were injured in these missile attacks.