Page 29
41 people. That same day, reports emerged
that Russian Iskander missiles targeted grain
trucks in the Sumy region, killing one driver.
Russia claimed it had hit a military convoy.
On September 4, Russia delivered a harsh
message to those claiming that the conflict was
limited to eastern Ukraine. Thirteen missiles
and dozens of drones targeted Lviv in western
Ukraine, killing seven people. Russia asserted
that the attack struck military production
and repair facilities. However, the missiles hit
approximately 50 residential buildings in the
city’s historic center.
The Bazylevych family’s tragedy stands out.
They had prepared for emergencies, keeping
evacuation bags by the door. When the air raid
siren sounded early in the morning, the mother,
Yevheniya, and her daughters, Daria, Yaryna,
and six-year-old Emilia, rushed toward the
shelter. However, a Kinzhal missile struck their
building before they could reach safety. All four
perished on the staircase. The father, Yaroslav,
who had stayed behind in the apartment, was
the sole survivor. Three other victims, including
two children, also died in the same building.
Ukraine faced another massive assault on
September 20 and 21. Residential buildings in
Kharkiv were heavily shelled, a nursing home
in Sumy was hit, and in Kryvyi Rih, Russian
missiles killed a 12-year-old boy and two elderly
women, aged 75 and 79.
On September 27, Sumy became the target of
a brutal double strike, a tactic Russia
increasingly uses to kill first responders.
A missile hit a hospital, and when firefighters
arrived to clear debris and search for survivors,
a second missile struck the same location
minutes later. The attack killed 10 people,
injured 22, and forced the evacuation of 113
patients from the hospital. That same day,
Russian propaganda was in full force, claiming
that a Kinzhal missile had hit a Ukrainian
airbase, destroying four F-16 jets along with
American instructors. As "proof," Russia shared
a photo of a wrecked F-16, but the image was
of a plane that had crashed in the U.S. during
a 2019 training exercise, with Ukrainian insignia
digitally added.
On the Ukrainian side, both the military and
state propaganda faltered after a Russian
attack on Poltava on September 3. The military
failed by allowing a large number of personnel
to gather within range of Russian missiles, and
propaganda efforts stumbled when officials
initially tried to downplay the attack's impact.
Russia launched two Iskander missiles at
a military training institute, also hitting a nearby
hospital and other buildings. The warning
time between the alert and the missile strike
was too short for people to reach shelters.
The result was a massacre: at least 59 dead
and 329 injured.
Trucks loaded with grain hit by Russian missiles in the Sumy region.
Only the father from the Bazylevich family survived. His wife and
three daughters were killed in a Russian missile strike targeting
“military” objectives in the city of Lviv.
A “military” target, according to the Russian armed
forces. Three Red Cross workers were killed
in this attack on September 12.
A military educational
institute hit by Iskander
missiles on September
3 in Poltava.
UKRAINE
INFO Eduard
29
November 2024