"It's terrible": after a massive missile attack, Kyiv residents shared their experiences with the Museum of Civilian Voices of Rinat Akhmetov Foundation

While the world celebrated the New Year holidays, Russia continued to commit war crimes, massively shelling Ukrainian cities with hundreds of missiles and drones. The capital of Ukraine suffered some of the heaviest damage. Residents of the affected high-rise building in the Solomiansky district of the capital who miraculously escaped death shared their stories with the Museum of Civilian Voices of Rinat Akhmetov Foundation.

Tatiana RACHYNSKA, 63 years old:
"We were being bombed from three in the morning, but around eight, it all came. Luckily, my mother was not in bed; I was in the bathroom, but unfortunately, my husband was in the kitchen. He was just coming out of it, and then, as I understood it, the remnants of the rocket fell in our yard, and all the windows flew at my husband; he has facial injuries, eye and head injuries, and he is in hospital."

Stanislav DZHEHIL, 58 years old:
"There was a rocket explosion outside our house. We were on the ninth floor, sitting between two walls. We were thrown to the floor by the blast wave. Thank God, no one was hurt. We got out about an hour later, maybe more, when the firefighters had already extinguished the flames. We climbed through the roof, broke out another lift, which was locked with bars, and got out through the roof, through the fifth entrance."

Svitlana YERIOMENKO, 52 years old:
"Warm clothes, documents - that's all that's left, what we managed to take. It was very scary; everything was on fire and smoke. We couldn't understand why they were taking us out, what had happened. Then we went to the central side of our house and everything was on fire. It's burning, and the firefighters can't put it out, and people are screaming from above, blocked in. It was terrible..."

The house in which these people lived was heavily damaged by a massive rocket attack on the capital on January 2nd. Unfortunately, two residents were killed, and more than 50 people were injured. More than 300 apartments in the high-rise building were damaged, and seven were completely burnt down.

The stories of Kyiv residents will be included in the Museum of Civilian Voices of the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation, the largest archive of stories of Ukrainian civilians who became victims or witnesses of the war. Tell your story on the portal https://civilvoicesmuseum.org/ or the free hotline 0 (800) 509 001.