Horrifying video footage caught a Ukrainian girl crying out in terror Monday as one of Russia’s deadly missiles exploded nearby.
Footage shared by local media showed the girl, identified only as Alina, looking wide-eyed in horror as she filmed herself marching through Kyiv as deadly airstrikes rained down on the capital.
“My hands are shaking — I just saw a rocket flying,” said the girl, holding a hand over her mouth in clear shock.
Before she could even finish her warning, she suddenly looked around upon hearing the loud whoosh of an incoming missile — and got knocked around by the huge blast that left debris flying around her.
Realizing she had survived, the girl made a heartbreaking cry amid the shattering of damaged property nearby.
Although the girl’s age was not revealed, she was filming while walking near the distinctive red terra cotta walls of the capital’s Taras Shevchenko National University, according to local reports.
“Military target, huh?” wrote one Ukrainian woman in disgust at Russia’s usual justification for bombings.
The area — which includes the historic old town as well as several government offices — was one of the hardest-hit in the capital, where at least eight were killed and dozens injured Monday.
BBC journalist Hugo Bachega was giving a live update on camera when he was forced to leap from his chair and take cover as a missile landed in the distance behind him. He returned to screens around an hour later after finding shelter, the UK broadcaster said.
Some of the strikes hit near the government quarter, including a glass office tower, which had most of its blue-tinted windows blown out.
Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko shared distressing scenes of a body lying in the street, angrily decrying it as “Russian terrorism at its worse.”
“And how was your commute to work this Monday morning? Because this is what it looked like to people in Kyiv,” she wrote alongside further images of blood-soaked citizens and charred destruction.
Other footage showed a huge crater just inches from a Kyiv playground. “This is where I used to take every single one of my 3 children. This is the playground I grew up on when I was child. And now it has a massive missile hole,” wrote Vasylenko.
“What ifs just keep racing through my mind.”
A map of the Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities on October 10, 2022.
Russian President Vladimir Putin gloated about the “massive” long-range strikes, blaming Ukraine for “terrorist” actions — and threatening more bloodshed.
“The Kyiv regime, with its actions, has put itself on the same level as international terrorist organizations. With the most odious groups,” Putin said in a televised address.
At least eight people were killed and dozens injured in the strikes on Kyiv, the first on the capital in months. State Emergency Service of Ukrai
Putin gloated about the airstrikes, and warned of more bloodshed to come. REUTERS“To leave such acts without a response is simply impossible,” Putin said, warning that “no one should have any doubts” that more strikes will follow any attempts at retaliation by its under-siege neighbor.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky insisted that Russia deliberately timed the attacks “to inflict the most damage.”
Front cover of the Oct. 11 New York Post. New York Post“They are trying to destroy us and wipe us off the face of the Earth,” the president said. “The air raid sirens do not subside throughout Ukraine. There are missiles hitting. Unfortunately, there are dead and wounded.”
With Post wires
