Nadezhda Yaroshenko, a resident of Dnipro, was saving her children on the day a Russian missile hit her house. The woman works as a doctor. However, her 12-year-old son was also trapped.
The rocket that destroyed Nadezhda's home with her son Rostislav forced them to start life anew. The journalists told the story of the family on the air of the telethon, channel 24 reports.
The son of Nadezhda was saved by his coach
The tragedy forced I hope to take a different look at the people around her. Indeed, the common grief united the Dnipro people. Despite the threat of the collapse of the house, hundreds of people rushed to sort out the rubble. They pulled cars with their bare hands to make way for the rescuers.
While the woman was saving someone else's child during the operation, her son, 12-year-old Rostislav, was pulled out from under the rubble by former coach Yuri Vasetsky. He got close. The man recalls that he climbed up the grate to the third floor while he was belayed by other eyewitnesses. From there, he saved the child.
The coach saved the child/Screenshot from the video
Nadezhda was touched by help
Further, good deeds only multiplied. The parents of Nadezhda's little patients gave her not only housing for free, but everything that the family might need in the early days.At the entrance I was met by the parents of my patients. From different families. They stood with blankets, with pillows. I was amazed and moved. I cried, Nadezhda said.
Now the woman and her son live in a strange house and, in spite of everything, hold on. She says that now she must start life from scratch.
Nadezhda with her son Rostislav/Video screenshot
Strike around the house in Dnipro: what is known
- During a massive attack on January 14, a Russian missile hit a nine-story building in Dnipro. The whole porch collapsed. The shelling took place on a holiday, when most people were at home.
- Speaker of the Ukrainian Air Force Yuriy Ignat said that the house was hit by the same rocket that hit the shopping center in Kremenchug – X-22.
- The rubble was dismantled for several days, the work was completed on January 17th. It was established that 46 people died as a result of the terror of the Russians. Six of them are children. Another 79 people were injured.