Ukrainian missile attack survivor recounts the horror of Russian blast that killed her parents: “Physically I am very well, but mentally, I can't even describe it.”
The concrete floor of her family kitchen, where minutes before she had sat with her parents, lay disfigured. It had dropped, at least one floor down below.Peering out through the dust from the huge mountain of smoking debris she could see the emergency services.Courtesy Anastasia Shvec
Later in the hospital Anastasia still had no news about the fate of her parents until she saw, on an online chat group, a message from one of her dad’s colleagues.But the intense pain of losing people close to you in a violent way because of the war was sadly not new to Anastasia.In September her “hero” boyfriend Vladislav Mutrunyuk was killed fighting for Ukraine in the war. He sign-up for the military in February of last year, the day after Russia invaded.“It is very hard”, she says.
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