(ANSA) – ROME, APRIL 09 – The elderly mother observes the movements of bulldozers, excavators and other vehicles at work a few meters away. But that in front of her eyes is not a work from which a new construction will emerge and she is not exactly like the Milanese umarell, the pensioners who stop for hours to look at the urban construction sites. We are instead in Borodyanka, a Ukrainian town north-west of Kiev which has become sadly known for a few days for having been the scene of some of the bloodiest episodes perpetrated by the Russians against civilians: those vehicles in action are engaged in the removal of the rubble of a building semi-destroyed residential. One of many, in the town not far from the Ukrainian capital.
“On March 1, around 9.30 pm, the Kremlin fascists flew up here and dropped a bomb,” Antonina Kaletnyk, the mother of a man who lived in that building, told AFP with emotion. “His apartment is on the third floor – confirms the woman -. Now I’m waiting for the rubble to be removed. I don’t know, maybe he managed to escape, maybe he’s injured somewhere or maybe he’s still down there: I don’t know, I can’t tell. . I haven’t heard from him for a month. “
Antonina, whose house was not hit during the fighting, remains there, sitting and watching, still confident.
This is evident when she indicates what remains of the buildings in front of her and distinguishes between those where, according to the news she has, they are all dead and those where the inhabitants have survived, albeit wounded. But how to explain to a mother that the hopes of having good news in those conditions are really reduced to a flicker? Svitlana Vodolaha, spokesperson for the local Civil Protection, is a realist: “Here the bombings fell between the end of February and the beginning of March. If someone is still buried in the rubble, the chances of finding him alive are really slim”. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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