'Before we could react, there was a loud explosion,' a witness told Newsweek about the missile strike on Chernihiv.
A witness sitting only a few hundred yards from a missile strike in the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv has toldUkrainian authorities have said that at least seven people were killed, including a 6-year-old girl, whose mother was seriously wounded. Among the 110 people injured were another 11 children and 10 police officers, Ukraine's interior ministry said.
The missile struck the roof of the Taras Shevchenko Chernihiv Regional Academic Music and Drama Theatre as people were on their way to church to celebrate a religious holiday. An injured man near the Taras Shevchenko Chernihiv Regional Academic Music and Drama Theatre, in Chernihiv, on August 19, 2023. A Russian missile strike on Ukraine's northern city of Chernihiv killed at least seven people and wounded dozens.Emma Mateo, an English sociologist who is in Ukraine on a field trip, said she was conducting an interview for her research in a café less than 500 yards from the theater when she heard an air raid siren.
"Before we could react, there was a loud explosion but it was not deafening. There was the whistle, the explosion and then car sirens started going off," she toldShe said she ran into the café to shelter. After about half an hour, she got the all-clear to leave and as she walked back to her accommodation, she saw the windows of many buildings had been blown out as glass was being swept up.
"In the immediate aftermath, people were distressed and shaken," she said, although people were generally calm."Chernihiv was heavily bombarded for about 38 days at the start of the full-scale invasion so most of the people here have experienced shelling before even if they managed to escape the city during the blockade," she added., who was on a working visit to Sweden, wrote on Telegram that a regular Saturday"turned into a day of pain and loss caused by Russia.
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