A Russian strike in Sloviansk (Donetsk oblast) damaged the apartment of Dmytro Braslavskyi, journalist turned servicemember, on 2 September, Braslavskyi tells IMI journalist Valentyna Troyan.
He said the strike had occurred at around 4am. The building where his flat is located stands in the centre of the city. No one lives there now, but his parents were in the city at the time of the strike.
“My dad learned from local social media groups that the district where our flat is had been targeted. He went over there. My building is next to another building, near which a FAB-500 bomb dropped,” Dmytro Braslavskyi said.
He added that half of one segment of that latter building was destroyed. The blast wave also damaged the building where Dmytro’s flat is located.
“All the windows and the balcony door were blasted out. There’s a lot of that kind of damage. My parents were there to clean up. This isn’t the first strike. We have reported before that my flat had been damaged. Back then, Iskander missiles landed nearby. Only the balcony was damaged back then. This time, all the windows and the balcony are gone. Back then, we managed to get everything repaired through the eRecovery programme. That programme doesn’t operate in Sloviansk now,” Dmytro explained.
Now Braslavskyi has to see to boarding up the windows himself. Volunteer organisations have supplied him with plastic film and OSBs.
“My parents explained to me that they’ve boarded up the windows, and it’s all holding up,” the ex-journalist added.
RBC Ukraine journalist Dmytro Braslavskyi enlisted in the Ukrainian Armed Forces in July 2024. He had not only worked as a journalist at RBC Ukraine, but also was the deputy chief editor at the regional news agency Novyny Kramatorskoho Raionu.