Their lives were intersected around a playground around a sunny Thursday in Kryvyi, a central city of Ukraine.
16-year-old Kostiantyn Novik came with his work to hang with his friends. A 57-year-old welder Serhii Smotolok, after the working day, was a nearby beer on a restaurant’s terrace. 7, 7-year-old Radislav Yatsko sat in the back seat of his parents, went past the playground, and sat in his house as they went home in his house.
In a sudden scene, a live scene turned into: a Russian rocket hit near the playground, hitting everything that separates everything in his way.
Costytyn and his cousin were immediately killed and Kostian’s foot was torn off the explosion. Mr. Smotolok was shot with missile fragments and killed in terrace. Radislaw died as shaving part of the kalachin.
“Everything was covered with blood,” he said, his father Rodion Yatsko. He wanted the Medoxque, who came in a short time to save his son’s life. “Then a man came to our car, looked inside and ‘ended’.
This The attack killed 19 civilians, including nine children last FridayTo make the most deadly strike against children since the beginning of Russia’s full occupation, According to the United Nations. The attack sent shock waves in Ukraine, who was the worst in Kryvyi Roh during the war Declared the National Mourning Day on Sunday. Western allies expressed their solidarity, and the embassies in Kiev have dropped their flags to semi-employees that day.
President Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown of Kryvyi was a painful reminder for the attack, the attack, for the fact that the war still needed to grind after three years Ceasefire talks between Ukraine and Russia. Despite the risk of Moscow to civilians, despite the frontline lines continue to send missiles and drones far away from the lines.
Russia’s Ministry of Defense claimed 85 Ukrainians and Western military officers in the holiday reported the restaurant near the playground. However, security images reviewed by the New York Times showed that the women participating in a beauty industry event and workers were cleaned a few minutes before the attack.
“Just killed the children and civilians,” said Anna Yatsko, Radislaw’s mother Sunday, on the eve of his son’s funeral. “There were no soldiers, only civilians.”
“All talks about the ceasefire are only empty words,” he said.
Kryvyi Reh, a industrial city, which has about 600,000 in about 600,000 in the front line, was regularly hit. Four residents of a rocket were killed two days before Friday strike.
In the difficulty, residents live for the moments of joy.
When a 16-year-old Kostiatt asked his aunt and legal guardian, Liubov asked Svoroba, he hesitated, hesitated, but as a result of his friends. Two teenagers work on the shadows of the war there, often work in a sandy area, rudimentary, colorful seating benches and chest press machines.
“They said that they just want to walk and see friends,” said Mrs. Svoroba, 65. “The explosion occurred as soon as they are.”
Several blocks from the apartment, 66, 66, Olga Yaroshenko, a large smoke and dust from the playground rose. The first thought was from his partner, a welding welding, a welder drinking in the restaurant. We have been together for eight years and then they found love in life. They saved money for a new car – Mr Smotolok’s dream.
As Ms. Yaroshenko fled the holiday field, a woman saw several children and several children’s bodies, some are already covered with quilts by the medis. “The whole area looked like an area of bodies,” he said. “There were crying, screams – was unbearable.”
He could not find Mr. Smotoloku in chaos and glued it in a safe way. Then he stole his phone, his number blinks on the screen. “I felt comfort – ‘should be live!” “Has remembered.
He replied to the phone, to hear the sound of a stranger, “This is the investigator’s speech. Serhii Heorihiyovych died today,” he said.
Sunday, the terrain around the playground, the wounds of massacres: bloodshed on the pavement, a piece of human flesh in a restaurant chair. The nearby buildings split the windows and closed several meters from a deep crater playground created by the formation of the rocket.
It is unknown which type of weapons in Russia is working in the park. He sent a team to check out the land, and Russia believes that the local authorities showed a shower with Shrapnell, from several meters from Russia to several meters from Russia.
Mr Yatesko, the father of Radislav, was so inseparable, a missile or drone had happened so that everyone will die together. At least he said, “No one will suffer”, the pain of losing the loved one.
But only Radislaw was killed on Friday. His parents, 8-month-old sister, Adelina and great grandmother – were in the car when the rocket hit – survived with shaking and scratches.
Mrs. Yatsko was born from Radislaw after struggling to be pregnant for years. When he came, he said, “It made everything better.”
He spent the animals, spent the lashes by collecting the libels without saving the eyelashes from the dense streets, bricks and butterflies, bricks and butterflies, bricks and butterflies. On Monday, one of the teachers, one of his teachers did not hear that his son was talking about his younger sister. When Mrs. Yatsko was pregnant with Adelina, Radislala would kiss his stomach every night.
Monday’s funeral, wearing a black bandanna to represent the car, looked at his son’s face in a small wooden Orthodox church. The gray hat hid the head injury. It was the only sign of a red wound that fleeed to the right eye on his forehead.
“It’s not! It’s not!” Mrs. Yatsko cried, and then he sang the name of Radislaw three times while trying to awaken from a long sleep. Before I bury him, his parents squeezed a luxurious animal between his arms.
In the days following the attack, the maceshift anambies are moved over the park, stuffed toys, candy sticks, benches, swings and candles in places where children die. On Monday evening, the largest pile, the highest chest, in the center of the playground, a hilarious circuit.
Ms. Yatsko said that the children will escape and play a life that he could play freely. “But so far,” said, “Even the children’s playground is not safe.”
