A woman has been pictured as she was dramatically rescued from the seventh floor of an apartment block that was hit by Russian missiles with her parents among the scores who died. Anastasia Shvets, 23, was in the bathroom on Saturday when the building in Dnipro was hit by shelling and she escaped with her life but so far 40 people have been confirmed dead and 30 others are still missing.
She was pictured looking stunned with her hands over her mouth amidst the rubble before emergency services were able to get her down. Anastasia has now lost her parents after her husband was already killed fighting in the war. Only a short time earlier she had been eating a meal with her parents in the kitchen and it was only by chance that she had gone to the bathroom when the apartment block was hit.
She wrote on Instagram: "Bits of the door covered me in the bed, part of the kitchen was in the bedroom. In fact the bathroom, kitchen, corridor and pantry are no longer there.” Continuing she said: "I have no words, I have no emotions, I feel nothing but a great emptiness inside.” She also talked of “remembering silly dad jokes today as mum and I were taking puppy pictures. We were eating mum's udon noodles.” Of her husband, she previously wrote: "I still can't get over it’s been two weeks since I heard your voice and saw your smile. When was the last time you told me how much you loved me. Everything, our goals, were in the end all dreams." Ukrainian emergency crews on Monday were still sifting through what was left of the Dnipro apartment building destroyed by a Russian missile, placing bodies from one of the war's deadliest single attacks in months in black bags and gingerly carrying them across steep piles of rubble.
Tall cranes swung across the jagged gaps in a row of residential towers, the engines growling as residents of one of Ukraine's largest cities watched largely in silence under a gray sky. About 1,700 people lived in the multistory building, and search and rescue crews have worked nonstop since the missile strike to locate victims and survivors in the wreckage. The regional administration said 39 people have been rescued and at least 75 were wounded.
