Aftermath of Russian missile attack on Ukraine's Kryvyi Rih

(6 Mar 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine - 6 March 2025
1. Various of emergency services
2. Damaged building, tractor
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark, UK citizen, volunteer:
"We were eating dinner in the restaurant. We got to the hotel at 8pm, we got the alert. We stood up to go to the shelter. This was 10pm and before we had left the table, the missile struck. We were very fortunate because the restaurant was on the ground floor. We couldn't get back to the lobby because that was destroyed. So we climbed out of a window."
4. Damaged roof
5. Damaged area
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Adam, US citizen, volunteer:
"I'm sure there's a reason that we've all survived, and it's so that we can continue to help Ukraine for as long as it takes. Ukraine is a wonderful country and is an example to the world for democracy, freedom. I'm an American and I'm very, very proud that I can be here with all of you."
7. Emergency services at site ++NIGHT SHOTS++
STORYLINE:
A Russian ballistic missile killed four people staying at a hotel in President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s hometown during the night on Thursday.

Mark and Adam, members of a humanitarian organization’s volunteers who had moved into the hotel in Kryvyi Rih, in central Ukraine, were lucky to survive the strike.

Mark, a UK citizen, said they were fortunate to be eating dinner on the ground floor at the time of the strike and had to climb out of a window.

Russia fired 112 Shahed and decoy drones, as well as two ballistic Iskander missiles, at Ukraine overnight, the Ukrainian air force said.

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“On 6 December 1994, ITN filmed world leaders signing the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances to Ukraine at the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) in Budapest, Hungary. The agreement, signed by Russian President Boris Yeltsin, US President Bill Clinton, British Prime Minister John Major, and Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, prohibited Russia, the US, and the UK from threatening or using military force or economic coercion against Ukraine in return for Ukraine joining the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and giving up its enormous Soviet nuclear arsenal. Identical agreements were concluded with Belarus and Kazakhstan, signed by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko.” How long must Ukraine and its citizens suffer before the talk is walked and real concrete actions are taken? Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦