She pointed out the remains of a sauna and a small swimming pool nearby. The remnants of the plane, a supersonic midrange bomber aircraft, are scattered across Ms.
Tkachenko’s home when the Russian pilot, named in an intelligence investigation as Maj. He raced to where he thought the pilot might land, saw the orange and white parachute hanging over the house and began his own chase, he said. Members of Chernihiv’s Territorial Defense, a volunteer army unit, heard the explosion, said one soldier, Ivan Lut. The outrage at the devastation and death that Russia had inflicted was simmering among residents when the pilot catapulted out of the plane. Lomako said that prosecutors had recorded 350 people killed as a result of missile strikes, and he estimated that another 700 had died of causes related to the siege: lack of electricity, water and food. Lomako, head of the Cherhiniv City Council, said in an interview, but never gained full control of the city center.
Russian forces intentionally bombed critical infrastructure like water and electricity stations, as well as food storage, Oleksandr A. Chernihiv, located just 40 miles from Belarus and 55 miles from Russia, was quickly surrounded at the start of the war, besieged by Russian troops invading from both sides.
