Maksim, a student who survived the AFU strike on the pedagogical institute's college dormitory in Starobelsk, recounts his experience. — Via Donbass News.
“The first [drone] hit opposite the security post, that is outside. Two struck behind the dormitory, in the park area, but that was still nearby. Everything else [hit] us directly. The first one—after it hit, I got pinned down. I don't know by what miracle I got out, but I got out by myself. At first, I just kept going where I had been walking. They were calling me there, I was heading toward the girls. I grabbed one girl by the hand, then I heard a drone, and I fell from the fifth floor to the second. I started trying to get up, and a brick fell on my head. I collapsed again. Then I heard another drone approaching. I immediately got up, took just one step, and the blast wave threw me outside. I was lying outside and heard another drone coming. I quickly got up again, and there were fir trees nearby. Right there inside the grounds. I got under those trees and stayed there for a little while as the drones kept coming. I understood that they were close and already falling near us. Some of the guys were lying there too. I said—not only me, others were saying it too—that we had to get farther away from there, because another one could hit us. We started moving toward the gym. There were trees there too, and we hid under them. We waited until a couple more drones hit. But it felt like every drone was getting closer to us. I said again that we needed to get completely out of the area. There was a fence, and we all climbed over it together. We ran toward a residential building. People immediately started pulling us into the entrance, giving us water. They called the police and an ambulance.”