Two Russian ballistic missiles arrived in the amounts on Sunday morning one by one. The first rocket, which hit the Congress Center of the University of Suma, hit the city center at 10:15. The second arrived two minutes later. People on the street had almost no chance to hide. Iskander-M, which the Russians burned to the East-Corgian city, flies at a speed of two kilometers per second. The air defense in the city in close proximity to the Russian border would probably not even react.
According to many testimonies, most civilian victims were responsible for a repeated blow. Traces on affected cars and buildings suggest that the Russian shot contained shrapnely to multiply its devastating effect. A similar weapon Russian army attacked the housing estate early in the month.
Although the Kremlin claims that the attack has killed more than 60 soldiers of the Ukrainian armed forces, according to some Ukrainian journalists, the group of soldiers who handed over the distinctive buildings in one of the affected buildings, nothing happened because they were in its hiding place. On the contrary, the attack fatally hit the civilians who were on the street. 35 people, including two children, were killed, more than a hundred were injured.
“Blood streets. The bus. Cars. Iron and burns odor of something like this you will not wash out. Most victims had no chance to survive,” Sumská journalist Alona Jcynová on the social network of what she saw when she arrived at the tragedy site.
Terrible outburst
Many people died directly on the street, in cars that hit the pressure wave and shrapnel, or in the public transport car, which at the moment of the hit of the Russian missile found themselves in the epicenter of the explosion.
“What wrong we did to them?” She asked with tears in her eyes wounded by Ľudmila Romennková, with whom journalists talked in a hospital in which she was brought after a Russian attack.
Her husband Mykola died on the site of the tragedy, with whom she traveled to the city center on Sunday morning.
“I was sitting by the window. The glass flew into my face. When I rubbed my eyes, I saw the bus driver was dead,” she told the local website.
“It was a terrible explosion. Everything fell on our heads. I was all my blood. I begged the boys to go for my husband who is on the bus: ‘Pull him, maybe he’s alive.’ I know that I wouldn’t leave me anywhere.
Both the family and the organist died
The strike of the Russian ballistic missile in the sums deprived the family of Martynenka for his life-he died 11-year-old Maksy, his mother Natalia and father Mykola. “Our hearts are broken,” in a mourning announcement of the school teachers attended by Maksy.
The attack also killed nurse Tetiana Kvašová. “After the first blow, my mother was still on the phone. She described how everything was humming. She was on the bus. She probably came out of it and decided to walk Petropavlivská Street on foot. After the second strike, the connection was interrupted as well as my life,” her daughter. Originally she thought that as a medical worker, she might have helped at the site of a tragedy, but eventually her mother’s name appeared on the list of victims.
Olena Kohutová also lost her life on Sunday morning. According to local media, the cohut was a talented organist and pianist. The artist also taught at the local Academy of Performing Arts.
“The message has hit us as a lightning bolt from the clear sky. Nor does it want to believe that this beautiful man full of energy and creative plans are no longer among us. The war takes mercilessly the best and leaves only emptiness and pain from loss,” her colleagues in a mourning announcement.
Among the victims is the commander of the 27th artillery brigade Yuri Jula, who at that Sunday morning randomly passed the affected street.
The Russian attack also lost his life for two 19-year-old medical students Svitlana Štepová and Darija Lobodová, a biology teacher Maryna Divesová, her mother Ludmila and two dozen people.
A 13-year-old boy helped the injured
Only a 13-year-old schoolboy Kyrylo Iljašenko, who traveled with his mother to the center of the city, became the hero of the tragic day in sums. The bus that found himself in the epicenter of the explosion began to burn. A Russian missile strike killed the chauffeur of mykol Leon and other passengers and other injuries and shocking passengers from the vehicle to which smoke rolled, could not get outside first. The bus door was blocked.
“The second explosion. I fell. Everything in the dust. I felt the glass. I felt it all falls on me. I realized the bus either burns or starts to burn and I needed to get out of it as soon as possible. I tried to open the door, but I couldn’t. So I put my sports bag on the window.
As soon as the boy was out of the bus, the entangled door began to open from the outside. “I guess he helped me adrenaline. I did everything I could just open them,” he described the difficult moments in which Kyrylo retained his presence.
When the boy who was injured himself managed to unblock the bus door, he began to evacuate other passengers.
“He saved me and other people. Without him, we wouldn’t get out of the bus and burned in it,” said his mother Maryna, who told Ukrainian truth that she still couldn’t recover from what she had experienced.
“It’s hard to close my eyes – because I still have the picture in front of my eyes. We didn’t sleep all night. It’s emotionally very challenging. I was on the bus and saw how the son helps. At that moment I realized I raised a real man,” the mother’s mother, who knows the whole Ukraine today.
