He hell of the war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine continuesalready on the way to four and a half years. What I believed in is far away It would be a ‘blitzkrieg’ and guaranteed success in a matter of weeks.
The reality could not be more contrary and. But the war has not stopped and the suffering of the Ukrainian people continues in the middle of 2026. Olha, at 70 years old, is one of the voices that has suffered and survived one of the last indiscriminate waves in Moscow.
The attack took place in the town of Dnipro, in the east of the country and near Zaporizhzhia. In this town, it is relevant due to its size and its location around the Dnieper River. There it was Olha Melnychenko on the night of Sunday to Monday, when around 4 in the morning he heard the anti-aircraft sirens from the Russian drones that entered the city.
The attack caught her awake. “I was sitting eating in my kitchen when I saw a flash and something exploded“, he recalls in a testimony transmitted to Business Insider.
The missiles blew up part of his house. The front door and windows were smashed.leaving Olha trapped at 70 years old. He could not get out of the rubble any other way than with the help of the rescue team.
Despite the scare and the destruction of her house, she emerged unharmed, something that other neighbors cannot say. “My grandson called me and asked me how I was. What was I supposed to tell him? […] Thank God, I’m alive,” the elderly woman, who is now staying in other relatives’ apartment, admits with tears.
The balance of kyiv’s military intelligence determined that the Russian army fiercely bombed Dnipro and nearby areas in a large scale attack which included more than 540 missilesballistic and cruise, along with a high number of drones. The offensive lasted for several hours between Sunday night and early Monday morning.
Even in the dark, the emergency services had to get to work to rescue and begin rebuild, with the help of the neighbors themselvesdestroyed homes and other basic facilities for the population.
