Report from Kyiv
BBCEvhen Povarenkov stood at a line of police tape separating the public from intensive search and rescue operation around his building.
He pointed out the rest of his apartment, in a suburb of capital Ukrainian Kyiv. His windows disappeared, his balcony is in collapse.
Below, personal possessions were robbed across the paths. Beds and towels hang out from branches of trees.
A cruise missile missile rides this ordinary residential block of solomanskyi neighborhood at early hours on Tuesday morning, likely to travel about 500mph. The explosion breaks 35 apartments and prevents an entire section of the building.
Wednesday afternoon, 23 people were found dead in the trash. Across Ukraine, at least 30 knows killed by attacks, all but two of Kyiv.
Povarenkov’s Building wind attack is just a large balloon sent to Russia – a more than 440 drones and 32 missiles, the Air Force in Ukraine said.
Barrage broke the capital over nine hours, from midnight to previous dawn. This is one of the worst Kyiv attack since Ukraine’s full invasion began.
Povarenkov, a 43-year-old warehouse warehouse, looked from his broken apartment. Her face was cut and shattered with all and one of her eyes was extreme blood. He couldn’t see it.
He fell in bed when the missile hit, he said. His old mother went to bed in the next room.
“There was heat, fire, and smoke,” he said, remembered the great impact of meters from his wall. “I lost consciousness. When I came, I heard my mother shouting.”
The neighbors helped Povarenkov tuned to his LORD door and got his mother into the apartment. Some survivors come with remnants of the broken building.
“People scream, children cry,” says Personer Arcadiy Volenchuk, 60
Outside, residents attempt to find a safe route by burning cars and falling debris.
“Everyone was burned,” says Alla, 69, a teacher. “Fuel tanks in cars blast. The broken glass poured from above, with concrete and tile fragments.”
Povarenkov’s mother was rushed to care, he said, with two broken collar collar, cut off his eyes and severe damage to his internal organs in need of surgery.
He was one of over 100 injured in the city. In midnight, Serhii Dubrov, anesthesiologist and director of the 12th Kyiv Clinical Hospital in Clinical, feels strikes.
For hours, his hospital only received 27 patients, he said.
“They have soft tissue injuries, lacerations from broken glass, damage to blood vessels. A brain staff. It has become a woman with a woman with a woman with a woman’s injury.
“These are the kinds of evils we see from these attacks.”
Dr. Dubrov’s hospital patients from 18 to 95, he said. Three are in their 90s. Attacks like this, in residential buildings, can be dangerous for older and sick, who cannot be easily captured in the shelter below.
Oleksandr Bondarchuk, a 64-year-old disabled person who apartment is also about the point of effect, it cannot be done in the shelter. She was lying on the couch scared whole, she said.
An hour after the attack, Bondarkarkuk slowly made his way underneath. “It is very terrible,” he said. “Everything has been destroyed.”
Some of the apartments severely damaged found in friends or relatives. Some are less lucky. “It’s all I have,” says Bonarcharchuk.
Strike hit Ukraine as the President, Volangymyr Zelensky, traveling to G7 Canada Conference to meet world leaders. Some Ukraine suspected that the time intentionally – a fierce message from Russia.
Attack scale points out Ukraine’s desperate need for international support, including additional air defenses. But finally, it can be proved to be a unsuccessful day for Zelensky.
His expected bilateral meeting Donald Trump evaporated as strikes occur, when Trump announced the conference of each of the Middle East crisis.
With Trump Nothing, a meeting of European leaders in Ukraine failed to create a combined statement of country support – a statement that Ukrainian is more expected.
On Zelensky’s journey from Canada on Wednesday, people from the surrounding Solomanskyi neighborhood of South-West Kyiv gathered at the cruise missile attack.
The police do not allow Even Povarenkov Pass the tape line to remove his mother’s possessions from their broken apartment, so he stood up and stood. One hundred feet away, emergency staff just found two more bodies in the trash.
They don’t know how much they can find, they say.
Anastasia Levchenko contributed to this report. Joel Gunter’s Photos.
