The Ukrainian woman who went out to look for bread in Bakhmut and returned to find her house destroyed by a missile

Liudmila Kharchenko left her apartment to look for bread in the locality ukrainian Bakhmut, the scene of fierce fighting, but when he returned he found his house in ruins from a missile still warm at the foot of his sofa.

The 63-year-old woman usually does not leave her home due to the heavy fighting between Ukrainian troops and Russian forces in this town in eastern Ukraine.

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But that day she was ready to go out, putting on some lipstick and taking her shopping bags with her.

Ukrainian retiree Lyudmyla Kharchenko surveys her burned house after shelling in the frontline town of Bakhmut. (DIMITAR DILKOFF / AFP).

“I received a call telling me that they were distributing bread, so I went,” Account is retired.

When I arrive her neighbors told her that her building had been hit.

“I ran to my house, hoping that they had made a mistake. But when I arrived, I saw the disaster.” he recounts, noting that this outing saved his life.

In front of a small wooden chest of drawers that is miraculously intact, even preserving a violet in a jarKharchenko puts his hand to his mouth and chokes on tears.

Firefighters arrived around 11:00 a.m., about 20 minutes after the impact, and put out the fire that blackened the walls of the two-bedroom apartment in a residential complex in northern Bakhmut.

Ukrainian firefighters put out a fire in a residential building after a missile attack in the frontline town of Bakhmut. (DIMITAR DILKOFF / AFP).

Sweat and blood

The smoke dissipates from the hole left by the impact of the missile and a patch of blue sky is sighted.

the head of the merch missile — which is over five feet tall and painted in camouflage — was left lying on the remains of a charred carpet.

At the other end of the room, there is another cylinder of the same size that could be the product of a rocket launcher.

The blast tore off the pictures hanging on the walls and a gold-framed portrait of the woman and her husband landed on the sofa, just above the missile.

When the pensioner returned home, she discovered that it had been bombed and found the missile head at the foot of her velvet sofa. (DIMITAR DILKOFF / AFP).

Kharchenko she ventures a couple of steps into the apartment and gazes through tear-filled blue eyes at a hole in the ceiling.

“I paid for this apartment with sweat and blood”, he states and then goes into a calm akin to a state of shock as he gathers some belongings to go to his son’s house, which is in another neighborhood of the city.

“Thank you all for putting out the fire, don’t worry about the debris, I’ll take care of that,” he says.

According to municipal authorities, about half of Bakhmut’s 70,000 inhabitants refused to be evacuated, despite daily fighting and artillery attacks.

Source: Elcomercio