Geranium attack at 4 am: man killed, woman pulled from fire by rescuer and police officer

On February 19, at around 4 am, two Geranium rockets hit the residential area of ​​Novgorod-Siverskyi, Chernihiv region. The first hit the house where the Kosenko family lived. The house has two entrances. 71-year-old Mykhailo Kosenko lived in one half with his wife, and his brother and his family in the other.

Mykhailo Kosenko was killed. He was known in the city. At one time, he worked as deputy head of the Novgorod-Siverskyi district state administration. He was almost unable to walk. Mykhailo Kosenko’s body was found after rescuers extinguished the fire.

A few minutes after the first hit, a second rocket hit a neighboring house. The house of the Primakov family. Andriy Androschuk, acting The head of the Novgorod-Siverskyi district police department, together with Sergey Yudytsky, the commander of the State Emergency Service department, a master sergeant of civil defense, helped to get out of the burning house.

— I leave and do my job, — said Andriy Androschuk. — Together with the commander of the fire department, we helped the woman. She tried to get out of the building. She crawled out of the house through the snow. The roof collapsed near us. The woman crawled into the snow. They cut a hole in the fence and pulled her out.