Rippled rooftops. Deep cuts. A burst eardrum. A neighbor's dog killed. Residents describe the fear and devastation after a Russian rocket stripped the ordinary from a sunny morning in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia.
The rocket had been hit by Ukraine’s anti-aircraft system, emergency services official Pavlo Zhukov told The Associated Press at the scene, adding that a direct hit on the neighborhood would have been far worse.“There’s no military here, no strategic facilities,” he said. “We were no threat to them.”“It just takes one second and you’re left with nothing,” he said.The rocket stripped the ordinary from a sunny morning. It bent a metal garage door inward, rippled ceilings and cracked walls.
Katerina Klimasheva, 68, was standing in her kitchen making coffee. The shock wave from the rocket slammed the door of her cupboard into her. It left glass shards embedded in the chest of one of her sons.“Fascists,” she said of the Russian leadership in Moscow. “I’m Russian. We’re Russian. But I’ve lived here all my life. I’ve not seen such people. And then they say attacks like these are false.”
Klimasheva said she assumed the rocket had been meant for the railway nearby or for the local steel plant. Russia has been targeting Ukraine’s infrastructure for weeks, smashing factories, fuel depots, bridges and highways in a destructive fury that will take billions to rebuild.“Attacking children? What can I say?” he said. “They’re swine.
“Nobody knows what’s inside their heads,” he said of the Russians. “Nobody wants to fight, but I will if I have to.” The 26-year-old construction worker was already planning to rebuild. But the crushed yellow Lada parked next to the house was a total loss.
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