Near the destroyed high -rise building in Odessa, a Christmas tree was lit (photo)
After the missile shelling of Odessa on December 29, when one of the shells hit the high -rise building and provoked a fire from the second to the fifth floor, killed two people and wounded 10 more, the residents of the quarter decorated the Christmas tree and lit a garland on it. The corresponding photo was posted by the SES press service in Odessa region. The picture shows that the Christmas tree stands next to the destroyed playground.
"The victims today from the shelling, the residents turned on the garland on the Christmas tree, which stands in the center of the mutilated inner yard of high -rise buildings. Only our people have such a thirst for life and victory over darkness, only Ukrainians! Light will win! Life will win!" - reads the publication. In the comments, users supported rescuers. "Inside the trouble and destruction of the light of hope and will.
This is a striking expression of will and lack We will live, "people write under publication. The speaker of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army "South" Sergey Bratchuk on the air of the TV channel "Espresso" commented on the act of Odessa. "A spooky Christmas tree, but it is a symbol of life. It reminds us that hostile shelling is worth expecting today, on New Year's Eve, the next two days and, after all, until the war is over. But the craving for life is all. The main result of this calendar year.
Today we have survived and should survive next year. Ukrainians should achieve a victory that the inhabitants of the house that was injured by the fire of the Russians. He said. The attack of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on Ukraine on December 29 became the largest since the beginning of the war. Russia attacked Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, Dnipro, Odessa, Sumy and Cherkasy region rockets and Kamikadze drones.
In total, about 120 cities and villages, as well as hundreds of civilian sites, were injured. According to the Armed Forces, 122 rockets of different types and 36 drones were launched. The Ukrainian air defense managed to knock down 114 targets-27 "Shahamed" and 87 winged missiles X-101/X-555/X-55. According to the adviser to the head of OP Mikhail Podolyak, the massive rocket firing included five synchronized waves in time, called to overload the air defense system and about.
Five people were killed in Odessa, with the death of a 77-year-old resident of the city, who became the fifth victim, the head of the Odessa Ova Oleg Kiper reported the day before. On the morning of December 31, it is known that 39 people were killed as a result of the attack, 159 were injured in varying degrees of severity, informs "Public". Earlier, Focus wrote that in Kharkiv the driver of the bus after the night shelling of the city went on a flight in the costume of St. Nicholas.