Man, 22, injured in Russian strike on miners' bus while trying to save passengers
A 22-year-old man named Dmytro was injured as he attempted to rescue other passengers during a Russian strike on a bus in Ternivka, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
Source: Serhii Ryzhenko, chief doctor at Mechnikov Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Clinical Hospital
Details: Dmytro is a miner. When the explosion occurred, he jumped out of one of the bus windows.
"I tried to help a man get away from the burning bus – he had a shard of debris in his leg. Then the second Shahed [struck]… [a piece of debris] went into my eye," Dmytro said.
Ryzhenko said Dmytro sustained injuries to his eye and liver, as well as an abdominal wound affecting organs in the abdomen, pelvis, or retroperitoneal space.
Another man injured in the Russian strike, 53-year-old Vitalii, is also in hospital. He suffered burns to his face and upper airways and a lung contusion, and has undergone surgery.
"Everyone who sat behind me, they were all lying there," Vitalii recalled.
Background:
- On 1 February, Russian forces struck a bus carrying miners in Ternivka, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, using Shahed drones. Twelve people were killed and 16 injured.
- Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said the bus was taking miners back to their families after a work shift.
- Serhii "Flash" Beskrestnov, the technology adviser to Ukraine's defence minister, stated that Shahed loitering munitions controlled via the internet were used to attack the bus.
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