She lived with her husband and one-year-old son: the woman who spent 20 hours under rubble in Dnipro
On 14 January, the Russian occupiers struck an apartment block in the city of Dnipro with a missile, and on 15 January, the emergency services rescued a woman who had spent 20 hours under the rubble.
The girl in the photo is 27-year-old Kateryna Zelenska, her sister Alina has revealed on Instagram.
She lived in Dnipro with her husband and their son Nikita, who recently turned one.
"This is Katya, my sister! She was found only this morning and, thank God, she is alive. She lived with her family in that cursed house on Peremoha [Street – ed.]!
She couldn’t call for help, because she’s been deaf since she was a child!" her sister wrote.
Due to her hearing impairment, Kateryna could not hear when the "minute of silence" was approaching and call for help at that very moment, wrote media journalist Larisa Yakubenko.
However, during the night, at one of these moments, rescue workers heard Kateryna's voice. It took 10 hours to get her out.
Kateryna's husband and son have been under the rubble for more than 24 hours.
Kateryna spent 20 hours under the rubble and was suffering from hypothermia. Her body temperature when she was admitted to hospital was 31°C.
She is now in hospital.
Kateryna's sister is asking for donations to help her.
Bank details:
- 4149 4991 4779 1758 (Kulak Oksana Ivanivna, Kateryna's mother)
- Donate on MonoBank
Earlier, the death toll from the Dnipro apartment block missile attack reached 40, including 3 children.
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