(16 Apr 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sumy, Ukraine – 15 April 2025
1. Various of Oleksandr Zaicev, acting head of intensive care unit, attending patient
2. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Oleksandr Zaicev, acting head of the intensive care unit:
"I can’t understand these people, the people who send these missiles. I don’t understand them. In the 21st century, there are people who like to kill other people. I’m just shocked. Emotions are overwhelming me, especially during this period (of the attack). It’s still incomprehensible to me how a reasonable person can do this. There are simply no words."
3. Medical worker cleaning the face of patient
4. Various of medical worker completing paperwork
5. Medical worker in ward
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sumy, Ukraine – 14 April 2025
6. Mid of Kyrylo Illiashenko, 13, and his mother Maryna Illiashenko, 38,
7. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Maryna Illiashenko, injured in Russian attack:
“We realized there was a burning smell and that the door was blocked. This meant that we couldn’t get out. We started shouting to the driver to open the door but the driver could not hear us anymore because he died on the spot, immediately. We had no choice but to start opening the door. We first tried to do it from the inside, but we failed. Then, while I was thinking about what to do next, I looked up and my child had already jumped through the doorframe and was opening the door from the outside. He managed to open it from the outside. He opened it, and there were people lying in front of me. He helped them up first and then let me out. He was very scared because my face was covered in blood.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sumy, Ukraine – 15 April 2025
8. Hospital ward
9. Drip
10. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Hennadii Smolarov, injured in Russian attack:
“I was riding in a trolleybus when there was a second strike. I was standing by the window and was hit by a blow. I don’t know if it was, a Shahed (drone) or what? I don’t know yet. And now my arm doesn’t work and my skull is broken.”
11. Various of woman tending to patient
STORYLINE:
Medical personnel in the Ukrainian town of Sumy are still dealing with the aftermath of Russia’s worst attack this year, which targeted the city in back-to-back missile strikes, killing 35 people and injuring more than 100 others.
"I can’t understand these people, the people who send these missiles," Oleksandr Zaicev, acting head of the local hospitall’s intensive care unit, told the Associated Press. "In the 21st century, there are people who like to kill other people. I’m just shocked."
Maryna Illiashenko and her 13-year old son, Kyrylo, heard the sound of that first blast ricochet across the center city as they waited for a bus.
They were headed to visit his grandmother, but the teenager was more excited about wrestling practice later that afternoon.
Undeterred, they boarded the bus when it arrived a few minutes later.
One stop later, the second missile crashed a few feet from from the vehicle, scorching nearby cars, burning passengers alive, killing the bus driver and causing shrapnel to rain down.
Three fragments tore through Kyrylo’s scalp and scratched Maryna’s face.
The pair were unable to open the door from the inside.
"Then, while I was thinking about what to do next, I looked up and my child had already jumped through the doorframe and was opening the door from the outside," said Maryna.
"He opened it, and there were people lying in front of me. He helped them up first and then let me out. He was very scared because my face was covered in blood,” she continued.
AP video by Alex Babenko
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