People with hearing impairments lived in Kharkiv dormitory: they would not have heard the air-raid siren
ALONA MAZURENKO – WEDNESDAY, 17 AUGUST 2022, 23:44
People with hearing impairments, who may not hear the rescue workers, may be under the rubble of a dormitory destroyed by the occupiers in Kharkiv.
Source: Nataliia Popova, adviser to the head of the Kharkiv Regional Council, on Facebook; Ukrainska Pravda sources among local officials
Quote from Popova: "People with hearing impairments were among the victims... According to previous information, they were among those who received help on the spot. We are waiting for information from the hospitals.
They would not have heard the air-raid siren."
Details: According to Ukrainska Pravda’s sources in the city government, there were people with hearing impairments living in a few wings of the dormitory destroyed by the Russians.
Ukrainska Pravda’s sources reported that there may still be people with hearing impairments under the rubble, but the rescue workers cannot reach them and the trapped people cannot tell them where they are and what injuries they may have sustained.
Ihor Terekhov, the Mayor of Kharkiv, reported that 4 Kharkiv residents have been rescued from under the rubble.
To date, 6 people are known to have died and 13 to have been injured.
Ivan Sokol, Director of the regional department of civil protection, told Suspilne that the Russian Federation hit a dormitory in Kharkiv with a Kalibr cruise missile.
Sokol said that more than 30 people were living in the building, including pensioners and children.
Background:
- Ihor Terekhov, the Mayor of Kharkiv, reported that Russian forces had fired on the Saltivka neighbourhood of Kharkiv. There was an intense fire in a residential building at the site of the strike. Early reports indicated that seven people had been killed.
- President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russian forces hit a dormitory in the city of Kharkiv on the night of 17 August. The number of casualties and fatalities has yet to be determined.
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