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There is a big piece missing from the building.
The rocket that hit it, in the middle of the night from Wednesday to Thursday, tore off the roof and collapsed the top three floors.
A rain of bricks plucked the surrounding trees.
We rescued two women from the rubble.
An old man, former founder and communist at heart, did not make it.
"Why do that?
Why kill old people in their beds?”
, laments Anna Sidilova, the building manager, rubbing her face in dismay.
On the first floor, still more or less standing, an old couple refuses to leave.
“I try to make them listen to reason”
, she says
The scene is repeated, regularly sinister, throughout Nikopol, this small town on the banks of the Dnieper.
In the rue des Patriotes d'Ukraine, two "khrouchtchevka", these sad Soviet buildings invariably ugly and grayish, are holed, and the sidewalks strewn with debris that three young women are working to remove, broom...
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