In the northern residential suburb of Vynohradar – a district of modest apartment blocks – residents were quietly and calmly getting on with salvaging, clearing and dealing with what remained of their apartments after Monday night’s massive missile attack on Kyiv. Dozens of rockets and hundreds of drones had been let loose on the city, leaving five people dead.
A woman drinking coffee in her apartment, which was damaged in the night attack on the UNIT.City residential complex
Debris near the site of the night attack on the complex
Residents’ possessions had avalanched out of one building, and lay in heaps at its base. Shattered glass lay in flowerbeds among the irises and roses. Locals came by clutching lengths of plastic sheeting to cover their blown-out windows – supplies were being handed out in the local aid point that had sprung up in a nearby school.In UNIT.City, a new residential and office development near Babyn Yar – the memorial to Jewish victims of the second world war – the glazing of the modern glass-fronted blocks was almost entirely blown out and chestnut trees stripped of their leaves by the blast waves of missiles. Cars had been smashed and were strewn with fallen branches. Residents were heaving piles of broken glass and rubble to a skip and installing sheets of plywood where their windows had been.
