A son wept over the body of his father among the wreckage of a missile strike in a residential district in the eastern Ukrainian town of Chuguiv as the country woke up Thursday to Russian invasion. I told him to leave,” the man in his 30s sobbed, next to the twisted ruins of a car. Nearby a woman screamed curses into the wintry sky.
A missile crater, some four to five metres wide, was scoured into the earth between two devastated five-storey apartment buildings. Firefighters battled to extinguish the remains of a blaze.
Several other buildings on the street were seriously damaged, their windows shattered and door frame hanging in the frigid morning air. In Sergiy’s opinion, the missile has targeted the nearby military airfield, close to Ukraine’s second city Kharkiv and just some 40 kilometres from the Russian border.
“It was one of the targets that Putin had cited, I’m not even surprised,” he said, refusing to give his surname.
Thick black smoke could be seen billowing from the direction of the airfield — one of a raft of strategic locations across the country pounded by Moscow’s fire power in an opening barrage.
A policeman said the toll from the bombardment was still being “evaluated” without giving more details. Teenager Anastasia clutched her grey cat as she watched her grandfather in a wheelchair being loaded onto a minibus waiting to rush them to a nearby village.
“We could never have expected this. We’re going to the village, we hope the war will spare us there,” she said.
Yevgeny Kaplin, head of the humanitarian organisation Proliska, said attacks were going on across the entire front-line that had divided Ukrainian forces from an enclave held by Russian-backed rebels.
But poor communications were hampering information coming about victims. The offensive is underway along the entire demarcation line in the Lugansk and Donetsk regions,” he said.
“Fighting is happening everywhere. We cannot yet receive information about victims, because there is no communication in this area
Source: eNCA
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