Natalia, 72, woke up this Sunday in kyiv at 6 in the morning to the sound of powerful Russian bombardments, the first since the end of April in the Ukrainian capital, which was recovering its normal rhythm of life in the midst of the war against Russia.
A freight car repair shop was targeted by airstrikes in southeastern Kyiv10 km from the city center, where Russia claimed to have destroyed armor supplied to Ukraine by Eastern European countries.
“This is another example of falsification by Russia to justify this brutal war against Ukraine,” he told AFP. Serhii Leshchenkodeputy head of the supervisory board of the Ukrainian railway company.
According to the company, about 700 employees work in normal time at the facilities, which cover several hectares.
“I heard six explosions at 5:57 in the morning,” Natalia told AFP. she was a former employee of the bombed area and that she refused to give her last name.
According to the first reports, there were no deaths in the explosions.
An injured person was hospitalized, the mayor of kyiv announced on Telegram, Vitaly Klitschko but was later discharged.
A 10-story pink building had all of its windows smashed out.
Nearby, a woman was cleaning up broken glass on the street in front of a cultural center whose windows were also blown out by the explosions.
“We don’t know if they will come back”
Leonid, 63, worked for 45 years in the bombed facility: “There is nothing military there, they bomb anything,” he says angrily.
The capital suffered its last bombing on April 28, the day of the visit of the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres.
After fleeing Russian bombing at the beginning of the war triggered by Moscow on February 24, almost two-thirds of the 3.5 million inhabitants of Kyiv have returned to the capital, said Klitschko 10th May.
The embassies of Western countries have also returned.
Russian troops lifted the siege on the capital at the end of March, to concentrate their efforts on Donbas, in the east, which the pro-Russian separatists have partially controlled since 2014.
Klitschko He pointed out, however, that the authorities cannot give security guarantees to the inhabitants. For their part, several Ukrainian officials say that Russia did not abandon his ambition to take Kyiv.
Leonid says he’s not afraid because “I’ve already lived my life,” but he worries about his grandchildren. “We don’t know if they will come back, it’s unpredictable.”
“People are afraid”
Tetiana, 58, looks from her balcony at the shattered windows of her white brick building, a few meters from the site of the explosion.
This woman lives in Poland but it came to Kyiv to attend the birth of several babies of their acquaintances. When they heard the explosions, all the neighbors went out into the street, he explains.
An apartment in another building also has many of its windows broken.
Vassyl, 43, lives there. “People are afraid now,” he sighs, carrying two loaves of bread in a bag.