Natalia Svidler, 40, was in the hospital at the time of the strike with her two-year-old son as he awaits surgery this week. “The nurses told us to go down to the basement. After a while, we heard a loud rumble, and then the ceiling in the basement collapsed a little,” she told the AFP news agency at the scene. “Everyone got very scared, of course. Everyone started screaming and running,” she said. Ukrainian energy operator DTEK said three electrical substations had been destroyed or damaged in the attack, the latest in a series of strikes that have halved the country’s energy generation capacity in recent months.
