Young man pulled alive from under rubble in Ternopil

Anna Kovalenko - 19 November, 18:55

The aftermath of the Russian attack on Ternopil. Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine

Emergency workers have rescued a 20-year-old man who had been trapped under the rubble of a high-rise residential building that was damaged in a Russian strike on the city of Ternopil. The young man was pulled out alive.

Source: Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko, as reported by Suspilne Ternopil, a local branch of Ukrainian public broadcaster; Ternopil Mayor Serhii Nadal

Details: "They managed to contact the young man, there is hope he is alive," Klymenko said earlier.

The young man's mother, Oksana, said her son had been on the eighth floor of the building at the moment of the Russian attack.

"They [the emergency workers – ed.] are not saying anything: 'We can't get to him', and that's it. They're not saying anything, they don't know anything. So I wait. I hope that God gives him strength and endurance," Oksana said.

Details: Later, Ternopil Mayor Serhii Nadal said that emergency workers had managed to retrieve a person from under the rubble. It is not yet known whether this is the same 20-year-old man.

Background:

On the night of 18-19 November, Russia launched a combined attack on Ukrainian cities. Explosions were heard in Khmelnytskyi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne, Lviv and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts.
The residential building destroyed in the city of Ternopil was struck by a Russian Kh-101 missile.
The attack killed 25 people in the city, including three children. Another 73 residents were injured.

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