Tuesday’s Russian missile strikes on Kyiv also hit the home of Dalia Makarova, chair of the Lithuanian Community of Ukraine. “We’re sheltering in an aid centre, without a home for now,” she told LRT.lt
According to the Kyiv city administration, Russia fired more than 60 ballistic missiles into the Ukrainian capital area on Tuesday night and early morning.
The explosions woke up Makarova at 8:00. According to her, almost all the windows of her residential house in Kyiv were shattered and the boiler room exploded.
“I am alive, thank God, only our windows flew out. But the people who live in the third and fourth stairwell of the house suffered more – everything was burnt, people’s houses were burnt,” she said.
Residents are still not allowed to return to their homes because of the fires in the building and the smell of gas, so Makarova is currently sheltering in an emergency centre in a school across the street.
When asked how people feel, the Lithuanian woman said that Ukrainians are already used to explosions.
“People feel absolutely normal, there’s no hysteria. We sit, we drink tea, we write statements about the damages. Doctors come to help [...]. They are bringing us drinking water at the moment, food is being prepared,” Makarova shared.
“We are used to it; we live this kind of life because there is no safe place anywhere in Ukraine. At least the New Year’s Eve was quiet in Kyiv, although practically the whole of Ukraine – Lviv, Odessa, Dnipro – was bombed by drones,” she added.
Tuesday’s attacks on Kyiv came a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin said his forces would step up strikes on military facilities in Ukraine in response to the unprecedented Ukrainian attack on the Russian city of Belgorod.
According to the latest information, four people were killed in Russia’s attacks on Tuesday, including one in Kyiv, and 27 others were injured in the Ukrainian capital.
Newsletter
Every Friday morning.
