Newsroom of Zoria newspaper from Zolochiv, Kharkiv Region, hit in russian shelling for the 3rd time

“The explosion destroyed the windows, which had miraculously remained intact, blew off the plywood from the previously broken windows, damaged the roof and doors,” Vasyl Miroshnyk, the editor-in-chief of the Zolochiv-based Zoria newspaper,” told the NUJU. “Fortunately, the house is quite strong, a merchant’s house of pre-revolution era construction, made of stained oak. Perhaps that is why it withstands systematic shelling while neighboring buildings suffered more….”

The city council allocated plywood, and volunteers are already closing the window openings. Damage to the roof is covered with a tarpaulin.

“It was difficult to find a generator because without an electric tool, everything is impossible; there is no way, and there is no electricity in that area of Zolochiv,” says the editor. “Now a new problem has appeared – the rain… It is almost impossible to work in the editorial office now, but, given the constant shelling, there is no point in overhauling it.”

The editor adds that “this time, for the first time, an icon brought from holy places flew off the wall of the editorial office. In previous times, she held on.”

According to Oleh Syniehubov, the head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration, on April 24, at 1:05 a.m., two rockets were hit in Zolochiv. As a result of the shelling, the former Zolochiv administration building and ten buildings, including two apartment buildings as well as a bank building, were partially destroyed.

NUJU Information Service

Photo by Lesia Babkina, Zoria