The missile ripped open the playground for children and dug a deep crater on Monday, October 10 in the early morning. Alina is a regular at the place, she often comes with her grandchildren, and she is in shock. “I live next door, 500 meters away. This morning I heard a huge explosion, and what terrifies me is that just yesterday I took my two-year-old granddaughter to this park“, she says. These new bombardments make her angry: “The situation is really bad, our city was attacked by the terrorists russian.”
“People are dying, they are civilians. It is an act of terror and a massacre of the Ukrainian people.”
The park was literally swept away by this explosion. A slide is in pieces. A scene of chaos, in the heart of an upscale district of the Ukrainian capital. “The windows of my apartment shook very hard, and here everything was blown out“, notices Volodymyr, a resident of the neighborhood, who took advantage of a moment of respite to come and see the damage. “There are no military targets around us, there are only two museums and this playground for children. It’s just a show for their people, to tell them ‘look we hit a NATO base’. But look what they bombed, it’s a children’s playground, he insists. The world understood that we were dealing with terrorist monsters.“
As Volodymyr speaks, the sirens sound in the city, “it starts again“, he says. Sirens which remind us that kyiv, spared for weeks, is still in danger. The inhabitants, terrified, run quickly to take shelter. The mayor of the city Vitali Klitschko also came to see the damage of this Russian strike. When he comes out of the park, his face is closed. “The Russian attack on kyiv is the longest we have experienced, it lasted almost five hours“, he said gravely.
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“It is a great tragedy. Russia’s objective is to break the morale of our citizens. The Russians are not fighting military forces, they want to kill civilians. Putin wants Ukraine without Ukrainians“, he adds with determination. A determination that has not been broken by this massive attack on the capital. The inhabitants have learned to live with the Russian threat.
In kyiv, a children’s playground affected by Russian bombing – the report by Omar Ouahmane and Jérémy Tuil
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