What local residents said about the strike on May 13 from rocket artillery in the town of Druzhba, Sumy region

On the morning of May 13, the Russian military fired rocket artillery at the town of Druzhba. According to the information of the mayor Yevgeny Hartynov, no people were injured as a result of the shelling. However, there are damaged residential buildings and power lines. Local residents told more about the shelling.

The first explosions in Druzhba, says entrepreneur Iryna Klyuchko, were heard around 10 o’clock. The blow fell on the central part of the city. Some of the explosions were heard near her shop. At that moment, the woman says, there were no passers-by on the street, and the store employees managed to hide.

We heard very loud “explosions”. At first they thought that it was flying somewhere beyond the railway, but then I realized that it was somewhere very close. Alla runs out and says: “Ira, we are burning!” I run in, and here there is a pile of dust, everything is broken, the windows are all falling, the windows are falling, everything is in dust, everything is in mud.

Druzhbianka Olena Bocharova said that her garage caught fire after the projectile hit. According to the woman, this is the third hit near their house.

I was at work, where we weave nets, and when the explosions rang out, we hid in the basement. It thundered loudly and for a long time, it was very scary. And when I came home from work, the fire engine was already here.

This is not the first time it has come to us, the first time it came by cab, so our windows were knocked out and the balcony was blown away, the second time the windows also flew out.

When the shelling began, Druzhba resident Andriy Seden was in the garage. At first, he intended to wait out the threat inside, but still decided to run into the house, which saved him.

I was going to work and was getting tools in the garage when I heard the explosion, at first I wanted to sit by the door, but then I decided to run into the yard. At first there was silence, and then the explosions rang out again. I ran into the house, and when the windows flew out, I saw that my garage was on fire. Just where I wanted to hide.

The city was hit by multiple rocket launchers. According to the information of the mayor of the city, Yevgeny Hartynov, no one was injured as a result of the shelling. There are damaged power lines and houses of local residents. Their number is still being counted.