A teen who suffered significant injuries in a horrific Russian attack on a train station has spoken about her experience.
Anastasiia Shestopal, 19, lost her leg after being injured in the rocket strike on the Kramatorsk train station on April 8’s morning.
The strike left 61 people dead and 121 injured, according to the Security Service of Ukraine.
Speaking to the Kyiv Independent, Ms Shestopal said she had traveled from her native city of Druzhkivka to get away from attacks there.
While waiting for a driver to pick her up and take her to a safer part of the country, she decided to find an empty bench at the train station and do some reading.
Thousands of civilians were waiting to evacuate at the station at the time.
Without warning, a powerful blast knocked her off the bench and she found herself laying on the ground.
“I was lying there in a huge pool of blood. I had jeans on, but nothing was visible. I just felt that my leg was wounded,” she said.
“There was so much blood, dead people everywhere.”
She recalled seeing people running around the train station in a panic and she almost lost consciousness.
A rescue worker spotted her and a team began treating her before she was taken to a nearby hospital. Ms Shestopal later found out she could have died from her injury if she had not received medical assistance quickly.
The teenager later had to have her leg amputated and is recovering in Germany, where a couple has kindly rented an apartment for her and her mother.