“I had just come out of the shop, I was on the flight of stairs. Twenty meters from me, suddenly a rocket landed. A few seconds, I remember almost nothing, only that I found myself under a car. All around me was all black, full of thick smoke and I could see nothing. “It is the shocking tale of Oleksandr’s Adnkronos,
employee of the shopping center ‘Amstor’ of Kremenchuk survived the explosion following the attack on June 27 that, from the hospital where he is still hospitalized, retraces those terrible moments. “When I woke up I realized that I had to save myself – he remembers – and I started to crawl out of the car. From the mall I saw some girls come out, one of them used her belt to wrap my leg. An ambulance came from there and they hospitalized me “.
“I was in shock, I don’t remember much but in my mind I have images of burning cars, many people wounds from the splinters of the shop windows exploded – says Oleksandr, who works as an employee in a store that sells household appliances. It was a very strong explosion, there were many deaths. Many of my colleagues have died, unfortunately …. “, he interrupts with a broken voice. The man is currently hospitalized in the city hospital, in very serious conditions but not in danger of life.” My whole body hurts – he complains. full of splinter wounds everywherea bruise in the leg, torn tendons and ears blocked by the very loud rumble of the explosion “. Next to him, in the room, a friend” who was also injured “.
The shock is strong, and will remain forever: “Nobody expected this in a huge shopping center, the busiest place in the city: I can’t say the exact dimensions, but there were about a thousand people inside. It was terrible”. A trauma relieved by the idea that the family was, at that moment, safe: “I have a wife and children, luckily they are fine and safe, they weren’t at the mall at that time. I saw them in the hospital. I’m lucky”.
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