Ukrainian → English transcript

Your parents died there. Today?

Please tell me.

There's nothing to tell. We arrived and…

Well, they were spending the summer in the village. My parents decided to go to Kyiv for the winter.

They hadn't returned for five days. And they phoned us last night to say there had been a strike and that the house couldn't be opened.

Well, the emergency crews had already arrived, and when I went in I realized there was nothing left — there were no walls, nothing.

It had buried him up to the waist. And then they said — I went down twice — that my mother was lying uncovered.

Well, she died at the scene. The parents who had been staying there did not die on site.

So I understand their apartment faced the side where the impact occurred?

Are the rescuers still working there now?

Yes, they are.

Were you even able to get in there?

Well, I was trapped right away, and then I was pulled up when they started working.

They shut off the gas first.

You can't go in there. When you enter the corridor, the floor was collapsing.

And the wall of the neighboring apartment is gone.

And the top panel is lying there, there's debris.

And didn't the parents live in the neighboring apartment?

Well, they spent the summers in the village.

Did they come back for the heating season?

They would come back while the heating was on.

They left — the girls left.

And how old were they, if you don't—

That was in 2004.

Are the rescuers still working there now?

Yes, we're staying until they get her out.

Then we'll continue working here.

The father was nearby when he was looking after her.

Oh, there's the rescuer.

Mr. Biyko. Mr. Biyko's father.

Sorry for the inconvenience.