Kyiv, Ukraine – The two -story apartments building from Serhiy Parkhomenko stopped right next to its twin that was beaten and level by a Russian missile on Thursday.
The innumerable red explosion, rupture of Tédrum, killed 12, injured 87, destroyed windows and roofs damaged in doses of nearby buildings of the quiet and leafy neighborhood in the northwest of kyiv.
The shock wave caused the Pakhomenko steel entrance to fly through its living room, pressing a cozy armchair that used to sit at the doors of hundreds of previous bombardments.
Fortunately, they were in bed. [23:00 GMT on Wednesday] Strike, the largest in kyiv since the bombing of July 2024 that damaged the largest children’s hospital in Ukraine and killed 34.
The Parkhomenkos hurriedly grabbed their documents and ran out. Serhiy also managed to drag his neighbor after 68 years out of the debris of his apartment.
“I have a very lucky leg,” said Parkhomenko, 60, a telecommunications expert, Al Jazeera, standing next to his broken furniture and a flat screen television that somehow remained intact.
What confuses it most has been the inaction of the White House for death and destruction captivated by Russia in Ukraine since the re -election of Donald Trump as president of the United States.
Trump makes the “eye” to which Russian president Vladimir Putin does in Ukraine, Parkhomenko insisted.
The neighbor who had saved was sitting in a bank wrapped in a blanket, with his face cut and bruised, and continued to repeat: “You liked to scare us.”
Just although Trump wrote “Vladimir, stop!” In a social networks publication on Thursday, American vice president JD Vance said a day before Washington would refuse to mediate in the peace conversations if kyiv and Moscow do not start them in a matter of days.
“We have shown the finish line,” Secretary of State Framework Rubio said on Thursday in the Oval office after the news of the kyiv strike. “We need both say yes, but what happened last night with those missile attacks should remember everyone why this war should end.”
Near Parkhomenko there was an American who arrived in kyiv to teach English English English and join Dobrobat, a voluntary group that reconstructs the houses throughout the nation hit by the war.
“I feel a moral mushroom to come and help,” Tom Satterthwaite told Al Jazeera, who led researchers about salmon spawning in the Dammed Oregon rivers, Al Jazeera while transporting Briks and stucco below.
He said that the White House had not been able to maintain its safety guaranthesis to kyiv, according to the Budapest memorandum.
The 1994 agreement prohibited Moscow, Washington and London to use the military force against Ukraine in exchange for its abandonment of nuclear weapons.
kyiv inherited the third nuclear reserve of the world of the World of the Soviet Union after its 1991 collapse, but agreed to Russia in exchange for security guarantees.
“Ukraine achieved the axis in the deal,” said Satterthwaite.
Saved by their glasses
Destruction and debris after bombing seemed shocking To some foreign volunteers. But to the head of the voluntary group of Doobrobat that invites and house them, the scene was familiar.
“We got used,” Dmytro Ivanov told Al Jazeera while other volunteers ran down the stairs in the Parkhomenko building. “We see it every day.”
Russia’s strike on Ukraine on Thursday involved 70 missiles and 145 explosive load drones.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the strike had directed “military and military sites.”
But the house destroyed the next to Parkhomenko was a few kilometers from the Antonov serial production plant, a centenary aircraft manufacturer that once produced Mriya (Dream), the largest plane in the world. The plant was burned by Russian troops in February 2022.
But the strike on Thursday did not hit the plant if that were the goal. Instead, he damaged the dishes apartments in the area.
Most of the victims were in the building next to Parkhomenkos, which was almost completely.
One of the survivors was Yelena, a blonde woman of about 40 years whose hairstyle, makeup and impeccable glasses contrasted with everything that surrounded her.
The glasses are what saved her, seconds after the strike when she moved to grab them, and the gas stove from her neighbor above fell into the place where she had just standing.
The explosion collapsed the inner walls and the roof of his apartment in the corner of the first floor, while her husband Viktor saved the two -year -old girl from the top of the rubble.
She and her husband crawled outside to see her car mutilated by the shock wave, while the natural gas pipes in the building were “exploding like strings” and the neighbors shouted for help, he told Al Jazeera.
They spent hours helping them in the dark and panic before discovering that the girl’s mother had been killed.
‘There are still people down’
At dawn, once the shock and adrenaline had worn out, Yelena realized that her hair was full of broken glass, brick fragments and asbestos dust.
He hastened his relative’s apartment to clean and then returned to recover what was left of Re -Inlings.
“Without an apartment, without a car, without things,” he said with a sardonic smile, standing next to a black garbage boxes with his belongings and an energy bank the size of a microwave that had been using blackouts based on Russia’s strikes on the energy infraestuctor.
Rescue workers continued to dig the debris in search of survivors, while officials registered residents. The communal workers were deployed and cut pieces of transparent plastic film to replace the broken window glass.
“There are still people down there,” Yelena said.
The Strike Tok Place on the 99th of the second presidency of Trump whose boasting boast of ending the bloodiest conflict in Europe since the 24 -hour war “has been useless.
The Kremlin has continued to produce conditions for a high fire, and the fierce bombardment of Ukrainian cities continues almost daily.
“They say they hit military sites, but they continue to hit civil areas,” Al Jazeera, Viktor, a 59 -year -old survivor whose face and scalp were cut by glass fragments, Al Jazeera told Al Jazeera while standing with his 90 -year -old mother.
Nearby, a teenager cried and groaned uncontrollable in a bank, after having understood that his 17 -year -old friend and his friend’s parents had found dead.