Standing at a stretch of police tape that kept the general public out of the intense search and rescue effort surrounding his building was Evhen Povarenkov.
He gazed up at the remnants of his residence, which was located in a suburb of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. His balcony was about to fall, and his windows were vanished.
Personal items were scattered along the walkways below. Towels and bed linens dangled from tree limbs.
Early on Tuesday morning, a cruise missile, probably traveling at 500 mph, crashed into this typical residential block in the Solomianskyi neighborhood. A whole chunk of the building was hollowed out and 35 flats were damaged in the blast.
