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Lidya Krylova has been waiting for this day for almost three months.
Rescuers have penetrated the 15th floor of the house where she lived with her son - until a Russian missile hit in early March.
Lidya Krylova, pensioner
»My phone in the living room rang because an SMS had arrived.
I didn't even manage to read the air raid warning before the ceiling fell on my head.
The rocket hit the 16th floor hallway.
I ran downstairs, neighbors helped me.
They washed my face and held my hand as I tried to clear debris from my head.”
Krylova's 43-year-old son Sasha did not survive the attack.
At the moment there are comparatively few Russian attacks in the Kharkiv region.
The rescue workers use this time to recover bodies from the rubble.
Oksana, resident
"It's so sad to lose someone you know, someone you love."
Oksana lost her husband and parents-in-law in the missile attack on the apartment building in Gorizont district.
Their bodies were also found on the 15th floor.
Alexandr Korobka, head of the salvage team
»Apparently they wanted to eat something.
But they couldn't do that anymore.
Hunger drove them out of the air-raid shelter, they went into the apartment, into the hallway.
Then they were knocked over.
There is no sign in the kitchen that they have cooked anything, let alone eaten it.”
Oksana, local resident
"They couldn't be found, we asked around and came here, but nobody had seen them since the attack."
Now the relatives can finally say goodbye.
Before the war, Kharkiv had 1.5 million inhabitants.
Many buildings in Ukraine's second largest city were destroyed by Russian bombardment.
