She lost her beloved and then her home in the war: what is known about the girl from the photo on the ruins of the house in Dnipro
"Almost every internet community posts about me. And I just want to be with my parents", says 23-year-old Anastasiia Shvets from Dnipro, whose photo in the ruins of the apartment destroyed by a Russian missile went viral in the media and on social networks.
When the Russians hit the apartment building in Dnipro on 14 January, Nastia was in bed. She was covered by the door, the girl says on Instagram.
According to Anastasiia, parts of the kitchen, bathroom, corridor and closet are ruined. Her apartment is almost completely destroyed. This is evidenced by the photo, where Nastia is sitting in the middle of the bathroom, covered with concrete walls. At that time, she was waiting for emergency workers.
Quote: "There was an abyss, and I saw the other part of the entrance, someone else's entrance. It has remained, and I'm almost unharmed, despite the wound on my head and my bare, skinned legs," Dnipro resident writes.
Nastia lived with her parents. The girl currently does not know whether her father and mother survived. She is convinced that they were in the kitchen when the explosion occurred.
Quote: "I do not know where my parents are. People say that they saw them alive, I am sure that they were in the kitchen, which is no longer there. I did not want to be rescued, I wanted my parents to be found. I understand that Richard (presumably a pet) is gone. He could have barely survived", the girl says.
Nastia emphasises that she did not want such "popularity" for herself. Now she just wants to see her parents.
"I remember my father's silly jokes today, and how we took pictures of puppies with my mother. We ate udon noodles, which my mother cooked.
I have become popular, although I did not want it; almost every internet community posts about me. And I just want to be with my parents. It hurts me. Do I exist at all?" she writes.
The tragedy that happened on 14 January is not the only one that Nastia has experienced recently. In September, the girl lost her beloved Vladyslav with the call sign "Fotik". The man was defending Ukraine at the contact line.
"I did not live, but I existed all the time, tried to accept the loss of my brave Vlad, Fotik for my brothers, and Honey for me... I felt that he would protect me.
I have nothing to say; I have no emotions, and I feel nothing but a great emptiness inside," Nastia says.
See also: According to Nastia's page on the social network, last year, before the start of the full-scale war, she graduated from the University of Customs and Finance in Dnipro.
The girl is currently in the hospital because she was injured by a Russian missile hitting her house. Anyone can help Nastia raise funds for new housing by following the link, as her family's apartment is destroyed.
Background: Emergency workers have been clearing the rubble of a high-rise building in Dnipro destroyed by a Russian missile for two days. As of the morning of 15 January, there is information about 21 residents of the building who were killed and over 70 injured, including 14 children. The fate of dozens of people still remains unknown.
According to Yurii Ihnat, spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force, Russian forces hit a residential building in Dnipro using a missile, which is also called a carrier killer.
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