ウクライナ兵、休暇中に自宅がミサイル被害 片付けて前線に

【ドニプロＡＦＰ＝時事】ウクライナ兵のマクシムさん（４５）が妻の誕生日を祝うために６か月ぶりに休暇を取り、自宅に戻っていたその時、ロシアがウクライナ各地にミサイルを撃ち込んだ。中部ドニプロのマクシムさんの自宅も損壊した。（写真はミサイル攻撃で損壊したドニプロの集合住宅の室内）
　マクシムさんは前線に戻る支度をしながら「本当に腹立たしい」と語気を強めた。北東部でロシア軍を押し返し、愛する家族を守る決意をこれまで以上に固くしている。
　当初の予定では、１週間の休暇を終え、１０日には前線に復帰する予定だった。軍は、被害を受けた自宅を片付けるために、休暇の１日延長を認めてくれた。
　「（ウラジーミル・）プーチン（大統領）が権力を握っている限り、どこでこれが繰り返されてもおかしくない」
　がっしりとした体格のマクシムさんはビジネスマンだったが、ウクライナ侵攻開始後間もなく軍隊に招集された。
　「家に帰るのは６か月ぶりだった。自分には妻の誕生日を祝う権利がある」
　自分たちが戦っているのは、前線から遠く離れた場所を守るためだが、「それでもロシア軍は攻撃してくる」といら立った様子で話した。
　ウクライナ国防省によると、クリミア橋が部分的に破壊された２日後の１０日、ロシアはウクライナ各地に向けて８３発のミサイルを発射。ウクライナ側はうち４３発を撃ち落としたが、残りの４０発はエネルギー関連施設や民間施設などに着弾した。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2022/10/13-13:16）

Maxim was on leave from the front lines for the first time in six months to celebrate his wife's birthday when Russian missiles slammed into the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, damaging their home.
I'm very angry, Maxim said as he prepared to return more determined than ever to push back the Russians in northeast Ukraine and do the utmost to protect his loved ones.
He had been due to return on Monday following his week's leave but the Ukrainian army has now given him an extra day to clean up the mess in his home.
As long as (Vladimir) Putin is in power, this can happen everywhere, said Maxim, a heavyset 45-year-old.
The businessman, who joined the nationwide call to arms right after Russia's invasion on February 24, vented his anger and frustration.
It had been more than six months since I had been home. Here I had the right to celebrate my wife's birthday, he said, his military papers in hand.
We are fighting on the front exactly to protect these places far from the frontlines, he said. But they still manage to hit them.
Two days after the partial destruction of the sole bridge between Russia and Crimea, a humiliation for Putin, Russia fired 83 missiles at Ukraine, some 43 shot down by Ukraine's air defences, the defence ministry said.
The 40 others hit many energy facilities as well as civilian infrastructure, killing at least 11 people and wounding 64 others throughout Ukraine, according to the latest official toll.
- 'Putin is nasty' -
In the Dnipro area, four people were killed and 19 wounded by Russian missiles, according to the military governor Valentin Reznichenko.
However, not one person died in the main regional city also called Dnipro, but the city was lucky, a spokeswoman for the emergency services said.
In a residential neighbourhood of Dnipro, where drab Soviet-era buildings stretch endlessly, a first missile strike hit an unused factory.
The second landed 10 seconds later in the middle of the roadway, gouging out a crater of several metres deep.
A video of the strike making the rounds on social media show flames reaching higher than the 12-storey building where Maxim lives.
Oleg Komar, a businessman of about 30 years old, thought he was in a film.
There was an enormous red light Smoke was everywhere. It was hell.
The impact was just metres from a bus, which was badly damaged and whose driver and some passengers were wounded, according to Sviatoslav Makov, the city's head of transport.
In Ukraine, we hope for the best, but prepare for the worst, Oleg Komar said.
Thirty-nine year-old Andrii Khalik, another city resident, talked of the immense shock to his family.
Their small desk and toys survived more or less intact, but his five year-old daughter Milana, wearing her pretty pink coat, is now certain of one thing: Putin is a bad guy.