In Boryspil, a 14-year-old girl jumped from the second floor during a Russian shelling
In Boryspil, in the Kyiv region, 14-year-old Sofia was forced to jump from a second-floor window to escape from a building damaged by a Russian attack. Part of the building’s entrance collapsed and blocked the exit, and the apartment quickly filled with smoke, dust, and broken glass.
On the morning of September 1, Sofia was supposed to attend the First of September celebration at her college, where she is training to become a pastry chef. However, Russian shelling that night ruined the family’s plans.
The girl woke up around 3:00 a.m. from a powerful explosion.
“At 3 a.m., the explosion threw me out of bed. I heard my mom scream, ‘Run out!’ The front door and the balcony were blown out. Everything was covered in glass. We saw cars burning outside the window and everything ablaze. We had to get out quickly because there could have been another rocket,” Sofia says.
After the strike, part of the stairwell collapsed and blocked the exit from the building. Due to the destruction and thick smoke, the family couldn’t leave the apartment the usual way.
So Sofia had to climb out through a second-floor window.
During the escape, Sofia injured her arm and leg.
“I injured my leg and arm when I jumped and fell. My mom also cut her leg on glass. At first, she even thought she’d broken it,” says the 14-year-old girl.
The deep wound on her leg continued to hurt and bleed, so medical staff changed her bandage several times a day.
The girl shows the bandages on her arm as she recounts the night she went through.
The most painful thing for the family was that they had moved into this apartment just two months ago.
The family had saved up for a long time to buy the apartment and hadn’t even had time to fully furnish their new home.
Now they don’t know if they’ll be able to return home.
Sofia’s mother, 38-year-old Alona, is forced to call relatives and look for a place where the family can stay for the night.
“The explosion was very powerful, and cracks have appeared in the building, so I don’t know if we’ll even be able to come back and live here,” the woman says, sitting on a playground across from the building.
Russian attacks on Kyiv and the Kyiv region have been ongoing for six days now. Because of the shelling, thousands of children are spending sleepless nights.
In some schools in the capital and the region, the attacks disrupted the start of the new school year.
For Sofia, this day was also supposed to mark the beginning of a new chapter—training to become a pastry chef. Instead, she had to flee her burning home and was injured while jumping from the second floor.
UNICEF Ukraine reports on the family’s story.
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