Ukrainians in Kharkiv recount moments Russian airstrikes hit

(18 May 2024)
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Kharkiv - 18 May 2024
1. Various of damaged house after Russian airstrike
2. Various of paramedics treating injured man
3. Wide of damaged house
4. Various of Zina Kostenko inside her house which was damaged by a Russian airstrike
5. Broken window
6. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Zina Kostenko, Kharkiv resident:
"I sat in the kitchen, ate, made coffee and went to another room to drink coffee. I heard an explosion, I didn't understand where. The plaster was flying, the glass was flying, everything was flying, I didn't understand what happened. And then (came) the second explosion. I got scared, I started to run away, but I didn't know where to run and what to do."
7. Various of damaged house
8. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Maryna Ihnatova, 40, Kharkiv resident:
"Everything fell on us immediately, we lay watching television. All the windows, everything flew out at us at once. My leg was slightly touched by shrapnel."
9. Various of prosecutors searching house yard that was hit by Russian airstrike
10. Various of missile shrapnels
11. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Spartak Borysenko, Acting Head of War Crimes Countermeasures Department of the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office:
"Today, around 3:00 p.m., the Russian military, violating the laws and customs of war, bombarded a residential quarter of the central district of the city of Kharkiv, Shevchenkivskyi district, with an UMPB D-30SN aerial bomb. You can observe the wreckage of the indicated rocket. You can observe the destructive power of this missile. The launch was carried out from the territory of the Belgorod region from an airplane. The rocket hit a private yard."
12. Various of damaged house
13. Close of bicycle under rubble
STORYLINE:
Russian airstrikes injured six people, including three children in Kharkiv on Saturday, according to the city's mayor, Ihor Terehov.
An airstrike hit the yard of a family house with two children, all were hospitalised.
Footage showed paramedics treating the father of the family in the ambulance.
"I just listen to explosions all the time", said Kharkiv resident Zina Kostenko, whose house was damaged after the attack.
40-year-old Kharkiv resident Maryna Ihnatova said she was watching television when "everything flew out at us at once."
"My leg was slightly touched by shrapnel," she added.
The second largest city in Ukraine is under daily Russian airstrikes, as intense battles continues in the region.
Kyiv has been struggling to boost troop numbers after Russia launched a new offensive that some fear could close in on Kharkiv.
AP video shot by Vasilisa Stepanenko, production by Volodymyr Yurchuk
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