“You could hear such a loud plane flying – after all, planes fly here, so for me it was nothing new, but this one was very loud – and then suddenly a bang,” recounted a resident of Wyryki, whose house was destroyed by a Russian drone, speaking live on TV Republika. The woman miraculously escaped death. TV Republika Foundation Inc. assured that it would help the couple rebuild their home.
Shortly before 4:00 a.m., the Operational Command of the Armed Forces (RSZ) reported that during the Russian Federation’s attack on Ukraine, Polish airspace was repeatedly violated by drone-type objects and that an operation had been carried out to neutralize them. The first violation of Polish airspace was recorded around 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday, and the last one around 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
One of the drones crashed into a residential building in the village of Wyryki, in Lublin Voivodeship. The machine pierced the roof and fell onto the second floor of the building. A TV Republika reporter, Łukasz Żmuda, spoke with the residents of the destroyed house.
“We were already awake, we were downstairs in the house. You could hear such a loud plane flying – after all, planes fly here, so for me it was nothing new, but this one was very loud – and then suddenly a bang. My husband looks out the window, a sheet of metal is flying, and he says: ‘We don’t have a home anymore.’ We only managed to run out of the house, we looked – everything was lying there,” said the resident of Wyryki.
Her husband added that he checked the upper floors after the impact. “I went upstairs, there was a hole in the ceiling, everything destroyed – he said. The woman, in turn, pointed out that she was only minutes away from tragedy. – 15 minutes earlier I had come down from upstairs. If I had stayed there just a moment longer, I’d be gone,” she said.
“In that one room, where the hole is, there’s nothing left. Only the image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. Everything fell, everything broken. The picture remained, hanging on the wall,” she recounted.
She admitted that she and her husband are still in shock. “Everything feels like a dream,” she said. She added that the Gmina Office would provide them with accommodation.
The couple said that emergency services arrived almost immediately, within 10-15 minutes.
“It’s heartbreaking. You work your whole life, and instead of enjoying it now, something else happens,” the woman added.
TV Republika Foundation Inc. assured that it would help the couple rebuild their home.