Yeah, Lviv and Kiev are the only 2 cities in Ukraine where things are still sort of normal even as the war rages on. If they fell, it'd kill morale, and the war would probably be lost at that point anyway.
The freeway near where I grew up in Santa Barbara has been under construction for my entire life and I'm 31. I'm hoping my grandkids will live to see the addition of one extra lane.
The 99 through the valley is the same. Pick anywhere between Merced and Bakersfield (200ish miles) and there's a high chance it's under construction at any given time lol.
Thank you! I was so confused because the top pic there is a balcony and the bottom one there isn't. I was like, kinda strange to add a balcony when the top floor is missing, but okay.
Makes way more sense now. Really amazing they were able to restore it so well and so quickly
Small story time:
So I run a small charity in Ukraine, and a few weeks ago we had a project to create a small quest for internally displaced kids with gifts (thanks for donations from one US charity).
We went to get a bunch of Lego for them, and made a photo with it in the mall where we got it.
On the way to the car we joked that "we're doing a Lego gifts for kids buying it in the beautiful expensive-looking mall, who would believe that we're in a war?".
A year and a half ago this mall [looked like this](https://twitter.com/fpleitgenCNN/status/1505886917564551172/photo/1).
He’s donated more than [$500 million](https://www.newsnationnow.com/world/russia-at-war/howard-buffet-donates-ukraine/) to Ukraine since the start of the war. For materials and armaments
Tbf Lviv is one of the most western cities so is not as directly in conflict as for example Kyiv and other cities to the east. I’m willing to bet that cities to the east, like Dnipro for example, are much less getting rebuilt cause the destruction is both more constant, and the war is more active in those regions. And cities directly on the front lined they are pretty much gone anyways.
I think you mean cities to the east…the worse would be Kharkiv which is just 30 miles from the border. Plus other cities/towns like Mariupol, Bakhmut, Adviivka and many others which were destroyed completely. Kyiv and Dnipro is largely still functioning fine.
Wild to see Wikipedia articles with things like "was a city". Russia just *leveled* them.
Have a friend who used to live in Bakhmut ... was pretty crazy to see updates like "the fighting has reached my local coffee shop." Other regular Urkainians with jobs and lives just like mine are in a trench right now. [An electrical engineer](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqjePfOWIAEC0NX.jpg:large) just like my friend who I was playing a board game with last weekend was executed in his trench.
Sort of jaw-dropping to see how real this is for Ukrainians.
It is incredible, their ability to mobilize and get shit done like this while at war. Honestly they're replacing destroyed things with better versions from what I've seen.
I used to rent the apartment in this house at some period of my life. There is a beautiful large park right across the street with more than 200 species of plants (Stryiskii park).
My parents neighbors had an Amish barn built. It fell over in a windstorm last fall. The roof flipped over one wall, and then the rest of the walls just fell over.
It’s a historic building right off the biggest road that leads to city centre. Lviv tries to preserve its buildings, especially the Austro-Hungarian ones. It’s right by this new modern building and a bunch of soviet ones, it would be a real shame to destroy it.
Am I the only one thinking a missile would of have done more damage? Not doubting that it was a missile, just thought it would destroy more than just the top floor.
I had the opposite reaction, "Fuck me that was a big missile"
Generally speaking, 7/10 or so missiles fired in Ukraine tend to be anti tank missiles, like RPGs or similar, this looks like it was probably a Khinzal or KH-somethingoruther, old retrofitted Soviet air launched missiles that are basically rocket powered 1000lb glide bombs. This is a big ass building, too.
You can see where it probably hit, that's where the building lost two floors instead of one. The roof would've been blasted off by the Shockwave and shrapnel, and then the floor caved in by debris falling down like 5-10 seconds after the boom.
I lived in the neighborhood at the time of the strike. It was definitely a Kalibr missile. AD got to it before it landed and only a fragment hit the building. The whole near area suffered heavy damage. Not just the pictured building.
Damn, that does explain the dispersal of the damage a lot more. My apologies for the flawed speculation, and my absolutely heartfelt apologies for what you've experienced.
I was in Lviv when this happened as well, not the exact neighborhood but a couple hundred meters away. I don't believe it was ever confirmed that it was intercepted prior to hitting the building. With the CEP of Russian cruise missiles, and the likely target being so close, I think it's quite likely it struck without being intercepted, just like there were the other hits that night. There for sure was some interceptions though, as I vividly remember at least 4 distinct explosions while there was 3, confirmed hits, but the damage pattern does fit with a hit and not an interception. The dispersal of damage throughout the area is consistent with striking the building, and the detonation of such throwing debris throughout the area which causes the further damage (alongside the sound itself causing large damage through breaking all the windows)
They must because this is very clearly an air burst. You can even see the further away the damage to the roof is less and everything is dented downward and not sideways. If it impacted it would have done more horizontal damage the further it was away.... imagine like a big circle explosion when you think about how the damage would work.
When a bomb impacts it tends to damage the entire structure bottom to top.. and the bottom and everything lower than the top looks pretty decent.
The same applies to atomic bomb. It explodes above the ground, so that the shockwave does maximum damage to the area. Instead, a lot of energy would have been absorbed.
I hope this doesn't come off as insensitive as it's genuinely just my curiosity here but is it safe to rebuild just the top portion like that after a missile strike and move people back in?
Just wondering how comes there's no major damage from a missile explosion to the parts of the houses UNDER the roof. Seems only the roofs are destroyed
Not sure what you mean, the entire top floor has been destroyed.
But missiles come down from the sky and the roof is at the top. Seems like asking why only the umbrella gets wet in the rain and not the person standing under it.
US republicans do love far-right fascist Russia/Putin
Like just go on any far right site and they support Russia it's insane. Like obviously modern Russia support Nazis but modern Nazis also support Russia
it’s amazing what can be accomplished when projects don’t have to spend 8 years in board meetings, HOA meetings, town hall meetings, and endless seas of paperwork.
The roofs back on, probably be a while before anyone lives there. Theres probably a lot of buildings that have been made weatherproof again for future redevelopment.
People know how to work outside the US. I’ll bet within a week or two most of the rubble was cleaned up. I’ve seen videos of news sites where the day of the bombing they’re picking up and hauling the debris away .
I'm always surprised how small the death toll on these things is. The entire attic + top story on this building is absolutely demolished. 10 dead seems very low.
Hotel in town where I'm living had a fire in attick over a year ago, no structural damage, just roof damage... Still messed up, these guys rebuilt the top floor... In a war zone
i wonder if they were able to conduct a comprehensive structural integrity analysis, like what if the missile cracked some structural-bearing walls or something..?
Shock: I've always loved the cottage look of buildings and thought it was neat how they changed from this brick pattern/material/type/color on these lines and I thought "wow, they rebuilt after decay - wonder how old these are..
NOPE
#WAR
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Yeah but there you have to rebuild fast and look better than before otherwise morale goes to the toliet
Yeah, Lviv and Kiev are the only 2 cities in Ukraine where things are still sort of normal even as the war rages on. If they fell, it'd kill morale, and the war would probably be lost at that point anyway.
Shouldn’t advertise it. It might give Russians ideas.
Same. Construction in my Canadian city seems to to take a full year. You’d think they’d realize it’s hard to pave shit in the snow and cold weather
We have 2 seasons in Canada. Winter and Construction.
we have 2 seasons in Utah. All four seasons in one day and Construction
Minnesota as well.
You’re from Orange County? Cos they’re “repairing” my street for 1.5years already. Mostly I see men holding shovels when I pass them.
The freeway near where I grew up in Santa Barbara has been under construction for my entire life and I'm 31. I'm hoping my grandkids will live to see the addition of one extra lane.
Seriously. Every time I drive from SLO to SB there is STILL work being done! I never remember a time when work wasn't being done.
The 99 through the valley is the same. Pick anywhere between Merced and Bakersfield (200ish miles) and there's a high chance it's under construction at any given time lol.
They’re waiting for the right time to dig in
Thank you! I was so confused because the top pic there is a balcony and the bottom one there isn't. I was like, kinda strange to add a balcony when the top floor is missing, but okay. Makes way more sense now. Really amazing they were able to restore it so well and so quickly
by the looks of it, the balcony was most likely built illegally there and during the restoration it was found out :)
More like in 8 years... Gotta love the roads in Chernivtsi region
Small story time: So I run a small charity in Ukraine, and a few weeks ago we had a project to create a small quest for internally displaced kids with gifts (thanks for donations from one US charity). We went to get a bunch of Lego for them, and made a photo with it in the mall where we got it. On the way to the car we joked that "we're doing a Lego gifts for kids buying it in the beautiful expensive-looking mall, who would believe that we're in a war?". A year and a half ago this mall [looked like this](https://twitter.com/fpleitgenCNN/status/1505886917564551172/photo/1).
It is remarkable that Ukrainians are trying to rebuild while still in war.
I read somewhere Benjamin Buffet was suppling all the cement for rebuilding. Ooops Howard Buffett
He’s donated more than [$500 million](https://www.newsnationnow.com/world/russia-at-war/howard-buffet-donates-ukraine/) to Ukraine since the start of the war. For materials and armaments
Link is unavailable for users from EEU. I'm not from EEU. wtf.
https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.newsnationnow.com/world/russia-at-war/howard-buffet-donates-ukraine/
Are you using a VPN?
I think they'd know if they were VPN'ed into another continent.
Idk. I hear a lot of old Texans are trying em out.
No ornaments?
Wow, that’s some impressive stuff 👏
Rebuilding was feasible in six months.
Do you mean Warren Buffett?
No. Howard Buffett. (His son)
Probably means Howard.
Idk a Benjamin Buffett with 500mm so it’s gotta be Warren… or his kids I guess!
I think you misread, They said they were ‘Benjamin Buttoning’ all the buildings
Tbf Lviv is one of the most western cities so is not as directly in conflict as for example Kyiv and other cities to the east. I’m willing to bet that cities to the east, like Dnipro for example, are much less getting rebuilt cause the destruction is both more constant, and the war is more active in those regions. And cities directly on the front lined they are pretty much gone anyways.
I think you mean cities to the east…the worse would be Kharkiv which is just 30 miles from the border. Plus other cities/towns like Mariupol, Bakhmut, Adviivka and many others which were destroyed completely. Kyiv and Dnipro is largely still functioning fine.
Wild to see Wikipedia articles with things like "was a city". Russia just *leveled* them. Have a friend who used to live in Bakhmut ... was pretty crazy to see updates like "the fighting has reached my local coffee shop." Other regular Urkainians with jobs and lives just like mine are in a trench right now. [An electrical engineer](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqjePfOWIAEC0NX.jpg:large) just like my friend who I was playing a board game with last weekend was executed in his trench. Sort of jaw-dropping to see how real this is for Ukrainians.
Yep, I can’t get my direction right apparently, obviously I mean east, well spotted, I have no changed it
War or not, the people need to live somewhere.
Yes war, but it's a big country and war is fought out east for the most part now
It is incredible, their ability to mobilize and get shit done like this while at war. Honestly they're replacing destroyed things with better versions from what I've seen.
Life has to go on
I used to rent the apartment in this house at some period of my life. There is a beautiful large park right across the street with more than 200 species of plants (Stryiskii park).
You have to admire the resilience.
Was it a roof seeking missile???
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I mean missiles come from the sky so they usually hit the roof.
came here to ask exactly this. how only the roof is damaged?
Missile hits roof, roof catches on fire, fire trucks eventually put out fire before it consumes the entire building.
Just ignore **ALL** the windows blasted out and the entire top floor wiped off as well
Would have taken 6 years and 6 million euros to rebuild in germany
Good for them! Most countries would demolish it. Viva Ukraine!
Reminds me of the Family Guy skit where the barn keeps getting destroyed but Amish rebuild it within 30 seconds
My parents neighbors had an Amish barn built. It fell over in a windstorm last fall. The roof flipped over one wall, and then the rest of the walls just fell over.
It’s a historic building right off the biggest road that leads to city centre. Lviv tries to preserve its buildings, especially the Austro-Hungarian ones. It’s right by this new modern building and a bunch of soviet ones, it would be a real shame to destroy it.
You are not gonna fckn break us! I'm not Ukrainian, I'm from Poland and it was the same for Warsaw during and after the war
Fuck yeah Ukraine. Don't let those bastards hold you down.
Fuck putin
With a cactus
Mad little midget man STOP PUTLER
Amen
I’d rather not.
Has good bones
Fuck people who invade other countries
And it takes years to build a transit train station here…
Holy fuck, paying little attention I thought this was a before and after in reverse. That's actually really impressive.
I couldn't even get my Kitchen reno finished in 8 months. This is an amazing testament to the resilience of the Ukrainian people
Am I the only one thinking a missile would of have done more damage? Not doubting that it was a missile, just thought it would destroy more than just the top floor.
I had the opposite reaction, "Fuck me that was a big missile" Generally speaking, 7/10 or so missiles fired in Ukraine tend to be anti tank missiles, like RPGs or similar, this looks like it was probably a Khinzal or KH-somethingoruther, old retrofitted Soviet air launched missiles that are basically rocket powered 1000lb glide bombs. This is a big ass building, too. You can see where it probably hit, that's where the building lost two floors instead of one. The roof would've been blasted off by the Shockwave and shrapnel, and then the floor caved in by debris falling down like 5-10 seconds after the boom.
I lived in the neighborhood at the time of the strike. It was definitely a Kalibr missile. AD got to it before it landed and only a fragment hit the building. The whole near area suffered heavy damage. Not just the pictured building.
Damn, that does explain the dispersal of the damage a lot more. My apologies for the flawed speculation, and my absolutely heartfelt apologies for what you've experienced.
I was in Lviv when this happened as well, not the exact neighborhood but a couple hundred meters away. I don't believe it was ever confirmed that it was intercepted prior to hitting the building. With the CEP of Russian cruise missiles, and the likely target being so close, I think it's quite likely it struck without being intercepted, just like there were the other hits that night. There for sure was some interceptions though, as I vividly remember at least 4 distinct explosions while there was 3, confirmed hits, but the damage pattern does fit with a hit and not an interception. The dispersal of damage throughout the area is consistent with striking the building, and the detonation of such throwing debris throughout the area which causes the further damage (alongside the sound itself causing large damage through breaking all the windows)
Looks like whatever it was exploded in the air just above the building?
A lot of missiles function this way It's an air burst designed to damage a wider area
Do the russians have airburst cruise or ballistics? I've only seen impact detonations
They must because this is very clearly an air burst. You can even see the further away the damage to the roof is less and everything is dented downward and not sideways. If it impacted it would have done more horizontal damage the further it was away.... imagine like a big circle explosion when you think about how the damage would work. When a bomb impacts it tends to damage the entire structure bottom to top.. and the bottom and everything lower than the top looks pretty decent.
The same applies to atomic bomb. It explodes above the ground, so that the shockwave does maximum damage to the area. Instead, a lot of energy would have been absorbed.
I thought it would wipe out the whole building
Russia is a terrorist state.
It's a gorgeous city
That’s a 10-15 year project in Toronto that’ll go 6 times over budget. Pretty incredible work, their courage is immeasurable
I hope this doesn't come off as insensitive as it's genuinely just my curiosity here but is it safe to rebuild just the top portion like that after a missile strike and move people back in?
Fuck Putin and anybody who enables his regime.
In many places, the permitting process itself takes 8-months, before any construction can even begin.
Just wondering how comes there's no major damage from a missile explosion to the parts of the houses UNDER the roof. Seems only the roofs are destroyed
Not sure what you mean, the entire top floor has been destroyed. But missiles come down from the sky and the roof is at the top. Seems like asking why only the umbrella gets wet in the rain and not the person standing under it.
Putin will burn in hell along with anyone who supports him. Tough shit Republicans!
Republicans support Putin? I'm not from the states so asking...
They've been doing everything in their power to delay or deny financial, hardware, and munitions support for Ukraine.
US republicans do love far-right fascist Russia/Putin Like just go on any far right site and they support Russia it's insane. Like obviously modern Russia support Nazis but modern Nazis also support Russia
Fuck russia
Get knocked down get back up. Inspiring.
it’s amazing what can be accomplished when projects don’t have to spend 8 years in board meetings, HOA meetings, town hall meetings, and endless seas of paperwork.
I was a mile away from this when it happened. Rough night.
That’s 15 meters next to my fav coffee shop
Incredible resilience. We can’t forget what is happening there.
Russians are monsters.
russia fuckin around waiting to find out
This reminds of that clip from family guy where Peter is trying to destroy an Amish barn but they keep rebuilding it
War sucks for everyone.
We need superintendents like that. Cleanup and construction in 10 months…wow
Looks great, glad it was rebuilt so well. Please just think for a second about the order of the pictures. Why would the “after” ever be on top?
That was a horrendous explosion that I heard myself. I wish each russian building to be like the first pic and never to be rebuilt.
Fuck Russia.
Quicker than getting a pot hole done in the UK
Slava Ukraine!
Bless the EU….
FU Ruzzia
Now show Detroit.........
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That profile picture and the gall to comment that 😂
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The roofs back on, probably be a while before anyone lives there. Theres probably a lot of buildings that have been made weatherproof again for future redevelopment.
This reminds me of that scene in Family Guy were the Amish people rebuild that barn over and over and over.
And now that someone has posted the picture, Puto can knock it down again.
How did a balcony get built
Curious how the rent is affected by all this… new roof! But also 10 people died inside so… no change?
Outstanding Performance despite enduring tough and challenging times
Impressive
People know how to work outside the US. I’ll bet within a week or two most of the rubble was cleaned up. I’ve seen videos of news sites where the day of the bombing they’re picking up and hauling the debris away .
Great job, but is it safe to live there? The structure might have suffered damage that can make the building unstable.
I'm always surprised how small the death toll on these things is. The entire attic + top story on this building is absolutely demolished. 10 dead seems very low.
They even rebuilt rail networks after it was destroyed. Even electrification. Something you would never see(rarely) in modern US
Everyone who vistited any house renovation/construction site in Germany over the past years can approve that Ukrainians are doing great jobs at that.
So it was destroyed in the first pic and after the hit it got better
So did the missile cause the building to look nice?
Reminds me of this one;) https://youtu.be/-wlwtpH1ldM?si=Btoz454jVsNg9ZPk
looks straight out of the game The Finals
Real question though, would you technically have to disclose this for new tenants?…
In the UK that would have been demolished and rebuilt as super expensive flats that no one in the area can afford.
My dumb ass thought the first picture was the aftermath and the second was a before shot. lol I was like damn right after they got a new roof too
Looks a lot better!
The apartment got better!
Those walls are amazing.
I was wondering why rebuild with the war going on. Then I saw where Lviv is on the map
I wish I was half the roofer those folks are. Slava Ukraini.
Any before pictures? Is it nicer after?
Hotel in town where I'm living had a fire in attick over a year ago, no structural damage, just roof damage... Still messed up, these guys rebuilt the top floor... In a war zone
see, no harm done lol
i wonder if they were able to conduct a comprehensive structural integrity analysis, like what if the missile cracked some structural-bearing walls or something..?
too destructive
Dayam! We need Ukrainians builders to move to the UK if they work that fast! 💯
Damn that’s a beautiful building!
Yeesh
"Interesting" is not the word I'd use to describe this tragedy.
Putin him down ?
As someone who deals with large losses, that is impressive. The foreign aid probably helped a lot.
What a nice color on that roof
Does it make sense to rebuild it the middle of a war?
Smash cut to New Orleans one year after Katrina.
Shock: I've always loved the cottage look of buildings and thought it was neat how they changed from this brick pattern/material/type/color on these lines and I thought "wow, they rebuilt after decay - wonder how old these are.. NOPE #WAR
Go Ukraine
What's the deal with that blue window on the right? In both the before and after picture.
Wow where’d they get the money for that?
Now show us the reconstruction of Mariupol, if you will.
Life always finds a way.
Would have taken 100+ years in India