During the overnight strike at Kyiv on 2 July, a Russian missile dropped next to the building where Vadym Miskyi, a program director with NGO Detector Media and a Suspilne supervisory board member, lives, Miskyi reported to Detector Media.
Misky was unharmed, as were the neighbors he spoke to after the attack. He has no information about the rest of the building’s residents at the time.
“Some people’s doors were blasted out, and the shock wave sent everything flying. Fortunately, my door wasn’t broken, so the damage inside isn’t that bad. The windows were blown out, and the apartment was strewn with glass shards and debris.
“But overall, the building’s core structure seems to have remained intact. I haven’t seen any flooding or anything yet, but it’s clear that the place will be uninhabitable for a while, because it’s in an emergency state. We are yet to learn if the foundation cracked. We’ll see,” said Vadym Miskyi.
He thanked everyone for their support.
“Friends, thank you for your wave of support and concern! I’m alive and well, and we’ll repair the apartment. Tight hugs to everyone!” he wrote on Facebook.
Journalist Olha Musafirova also reported on the situation near the damaged building in a Facebook post. She said that the explosion had been so strong that it shook the nearby subway station, where plaster flaked off the ceiling and some wall tiles crumbled.
The Kyiv City Military Administration chair Timur Tkachenko reported in a Telegram post that the Russian strike at Kyiv overnight on 2 July killed 13 people and injured 86. The strike damaged the Islandiya TV studio, killing a security guard.
The attack also may have caused temporary disruption in the operation of some Vodafone Ukraine services.