UKRAINE, KHARKIV, Oct. 12 — “I froze on the balcony, staring at the smoke and dust all around. I couldn’t move, even though there had already been two explosions. Only after the third one did I force myself to go out into the hallway,” said Anna.
Anna lives in the apartment building, which was damaged after a Russian attack on a residential area in the Kyivskyi district of Kharkiv on the morning of Oct. 12.
When the Gwara Media journalists arrived, Anna was already standing on the street. But she couldn’t leave the apartment for quite some time:
“It took a long time to get ready. I wanted to charge my phone, but then I realized the power was already out in the building. I remembered I had to turn off the water. I walked around the apartment a few more times — only then was I able to leave,” she said.
According to Ihor Terekhov, Kharkiv’s mayor, a Russian Shahed drone hit the apartment building directly, and floors seven through nine were destroyed.
The attack injured 22 people, including two children, the Kharkiv regional police said.
“My sister has a small piece of shrapnel in her hand. Medics rebandaged her arm,” another resident of the damaged apartment building said.
She did not ask for medical help, though the windows in one of her rooms were all blasted out by the explosion.
Russian drones also attacked a sports training facility. The mayor reported on at least five Russian attacks on the Kyivskyi district of Kharkiv this morning.
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