The key facts
- Two LTK employees may remain under the rubble; their fate has not been confirmed
- The fire spread across all ten floors; open burning was extinguished at 09:22
- Emergency services are working at the scene
Fate of two employees unknown
At least two employees of the Luhansk telephone company (LTK) may be under the rubble of the building damaged during the night attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the center of Luhansk. An employee of the company named Viktor told TASS about this. According to him, the workers of the duty shift managed to take shelter in the basement, but two of their colleagues remained on the upper floors. 'When we went down to the basement, two people did not come down from above. There was the night shift on the third floor and also on some other floor,' the witness said.
The witness described the moment of the attack
Viktor was at work when he heard the first explosion. Looking outside, he did not notice serious damage, but together with his colleagues he decided to go down to the shelter. After that, three more explosions rang out. The sheltering employees began to find out who had managed to escape. He knows nothing about the fate of the two colleagues who remained upstairs; at the time of his account there was no confirmation of the death or rescue of these people.
Fire extinguishing and work at the scene
Earlier, the head of the LNR, Leonid Pasechnik, reported serious damage to the telephone company building. Emergency services are working at the scene. According to the regional Emergency Ministry, after the attack the fire spread to all ten floors of the building. Open burning was extinguished at 09:22; work to eliminate the consequences continues.
