The apartment of Suspilne Dnipro cameraman Yuriy Tynnyi was damaged in another overnight Russian strike on 18 May, Tynnyi reported to Kateryna Lysiuk, the Institute of Mass Information’s regional representative.
Yuriy Tynnyi said that he and his family had been on their way back from the bomb shelter shortly after a drone strike when a missile strike began. They had just decided to wait out the strike in the stairwell of a neighboring building when an explosion went off nearby.
The shock wave blasted out the windows, entrance, and interior doors in Tynnyi’s apartment.
“We were leaving the shelter after the Shahed strike. The alert status was ‘yellow’ [i.e. all clear] already when the missiles started coming in. Well, we had no time to run. Honestly, it’s good that we didn’t run to the bomb shelter, because it dropped right on the way to the shelter. So if we had run there, and it could have hit us,” said Yuriy Tynnyi.
Tynnyi said that the windows had absorbed most of the shock wave from the Russian missile. He added that the roof of the building had been damaged, but the loadbearing structures probably remained intact. Not a single metal-plastic window frame in Yuriy’s apartment survived.
He added that some technology in the household, including a TV and a monitor, had also been damaged, but the laptop had remained intact.
Tynnyi said that the water and electricity supply systems in the apartment survived, but the apartment was still uninhabitable. “We need to tidy everything up, replace the windows,” he said.
The cameraman’s car was not damaged as it was not parked near the building. Yuriy and his family go to the bomb shelter every time an air raid alert is announced.
What matters is that they survived and are unharmed, the media worker believes.
“A flowerpot with a flower that was on the windowsill flew across the entire room and crashed into the shelf, such was the force of the blast wave. And the distance from the window to the wall opposite in the bedroom was about 2 meters, and the window frame even pierced the wall! There partition there is wooden, but still,” the cameraman said.
As previously reported, a missile hit a residential house in Dnipro late on 25 April, damaging the neighboring buildings, including the apartment of local journalist Vladyslav Malko.
