For the twigs Sunday, Volodymyr Boyko decided to go by bus, No. 62, to the Cathedral of Sainte-Récurrection, in the center of Soumy. At some terminus stops, the 69 -year -old retiree hears the first detonation. Then a second. “Everything fell straight on us. I instinctively leaned and crouching ”, recalls Boyko, whose face and bald skull are cut by shrapies of shrapnel and multiple small wounds covered with dried blood. “When I got up, I saw the horror around me!” The dead were stacked on each other, He says Monday morning, in front of his home, in the south of the city. The windows were broken, the doors blocked. I did not know that the driver was already dead. ” Outside, the buildings burned and the cars exploded. Two ballistic missiles fell on the city in northeast Ukraine on Sunday, killing 35 people and wounded 119.
Boyko, fearing that the passengers will burn live inside the bus, first tried to unlock the doors itself, in vain. Kirillo Illiashenko, 13, came to his rescue, escaping through a broken window. The teenager was able to unlock the passage, the wounded extracted from the bus. Volodymyr, in blood, helped them get out. He only remembers a few images, as in a fog, and has not yet recovered from the shock. A young woman and a little girl see
