Apartments of two media workers damaged in overnight Kyiv strike
The Russian missile and drone strike on Kyiv damaged the apartments of TV presenter Kateryna Soliar and former AGP Media chief editor Oksana Ruzhenkova, the two report on social media.
Kateryna Soliar posted a video on TikTok saying that she had decided to sleep in the halway that night, for the second time during the entire full-scale invasion. The blast tore out the door of her apartment, broke the double-glazed windows. Now the TV presenter’s apartment is strewn with glass shards, there are window frame fragments on the floor, and the furniture is visibly damaged.
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In a comment to Channel 24, she said that the missile exploded in the air not far from her house and the windows were blown out by the shock wave.
“I realized that if the first 50 (Shaheds. – Ed.) have been launched and there are 50 more approaching Kyiv, it meant that there would be missiles that night, too. It was most likely an Iskander or a North Korean KN-23. It exploded in the air, not far from my house. The shock wave blew out the windows. I say it exploded in the air because there is no crater. There is some damage,” she said.
She added that she was unable unlock the door in the morning as it was damaged and had to be pushed back a little.
Kateryna Soliar says that today the windows will most likely be replaced with plastic film.
"The debris is already being cleaned up. Missile fragments were lying right between the cars, those have also been taken away. There are casualties among the neighbors. They had to get stitches. There was a candle on my table, where I usually drink coffee in the morning. A friend gifted it to me. It had a rooster on top. Every time I see these roosters in Ukrainian apartments, I want to say that there is probably a rooster in every apartment. Because it is broken, like us, but it is holding on. So we are holding on," Soliar said.
Oksana Ruzhenkova wrote in a Facebook post that windows and doors in her apartment were also broken.
“By the way, neither the police nor the utility workers showed up to our numerous calls and requests. The Solomyansky district dispatcher refused even to record the call because of the curfew and the air raid alert,” the journalist noted.
Oksana Ruzhenkova's apartment damaged in Russian drone and missile strike on Kyiv (Kyiv, July 31). Photo by Oksana Ruzhenkova on Facebook
Oksana Ruzhenkova's apartment damaged in Russian drone and missile strike on Kyiv (Kyiv, July 31). Photo by Oksana Ruzhenkova on Facebook
Oksana Ruzhenkova's apartment damaged in Russian drone and missile strike on Kyiv (Kyiv, July 31). Photo by Oksana Ruzhenkova on Facebook
She also shared photos of her damaged apartment.
As reported earlier, he house of Dmytro Yevenko, the official Ukrainian photographer of the International Biathlon Union and photo correspondent with the NordicFocus agency, was damaged in a Russian strike on Kyiv in the early hours of of June 23.
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