Matviy Voronov’s message reeks of desperation. “Is anyone from the Voronov family alive? Maybe someone has seen them?” he asked in a local community group on Thursday, after learning that Russia hit his home village in southern Ukraine with a ballistic missile.
“Matviy, I was there. Only the foundation of the house remained, everyone died,” one of the neighbors replied.
As of Thursday afternoon, rescuers had recovered six bodies from the rubble of the home in the rural village of Radushne, in the Dnipro Region, including those of Voronov’s parents and four children.
Local authorities said they believed 10 people were in the house when it was struck: Voronov’s parents Olena, 41, and Artem, 47, seven of his nine siblings – Mark, 17, Dominika, 15, Vioryka 14, Zakhariy, 12, Azariy Ilai, 11, Federikа 10 and Emilia, six – and his one-and-a-half-year old nephew Artem.
Oleksandr Vilkul, the head of the Military Administration of Kryvyi Rih, told CNN the Voronovs’ home was struck with an Iskander ballistic missile launched by Russia from Voronezh.
