The human toll has further increased in Dnipro in Ukraine the day after the Russian missile strike which devastated a residential building on Sunday 15 January. We deplore 35 dead. ” Thirty-nine people were rescued, 75 were injured “, said on social networks the regional governor of Dnipropetrovsk, Valentyn Reznichenko. He said the fate of 35 other residents of the building was still ” unknown “. President Zelensky said relief workers were working tirelessly to save lives.
In a nightgown, barely covered with a coat, Elena, in her sixties, sobs, our special correspondents in Dnipro tell us, Aabla Jounaidi and Boris Vicith. She imagines the worst for her friend Oxana and her daughter. They live in the collapsed building: Our children grew up here in this yard together. Oxana has already lost her husband. Yesterday she went to work. And her 10-year-old daughter was home. »
” I love Ukraine »
These words, Elena tells us in Russian. But today, less than ever, she does not want to hear Vladimir Putin set himself up as a defender of Russian speakers: “ Him, the saviour? I want him to die. I speak Ukrainian badly because I was born in Russia, in Rostov. But my whole life is here. I want to say it: I love Ukraine. I believe in our victory “, she says again.
” Why my granddaughter must be afraid of mermaids ? »
” May my relatives in Russia hear our pain. They don’t talk to me anymore. They don’t understand what’s going on here. Why do our children have to live in fear? In the cellar, under the bombs, and see all that? Why should my granddaughter be afraid of mermaids? “, she exclaims again.
A plea released in a last sob, while smoking ruins, a survivor has just been extirpated by the rescuers. After the Dnipro strike, the United States denounced “ another example of the brutal and barbaric war waged by Russia against the Ukrainian people “. A spokesman for the National Security Council assured that they ” will continue to provide Ukraine with what it needs to defend itself “.
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