Confession: Russian rocket that caused two painful stories

“I was caught in flames, turned to hi”, he confessed to CNN from the hospital bed in southern Ukraine.

I thought I'd be back in a minute. I felt everything”, he says.

Paradoksky says he was just out of the sushi, and that's what might have saved him because being in the bathroom would mean he would have another wall between him and the rockets.

The explosion exploded on several floors of the high building in Odessa, leaving a large hole in the middle.

Within a second he realized he was hurt and in the next second, the instinct for survival woke him up and made him find a way out, he recalls.

He says he crossed over hot concrete parts at the entrance of the building where there was no longer a facade. He poured out his hands, nose, and neck with water from a broken tube and managed to find his way to the road of emergency teams.

I didn't feel any pain. I was at adrenaline”, says Paradovsky.

The pain, however, came. Paradovsky says he had suffered first and second-degree burns at 20% of his body, as well as a pile of wounds opened by flying chips.

Before the attack, he planned to work on shipping. Now he says the plan is pending.

For the next year, my mission is recovery”.

As Paradovsky felt the instinct to escape, Yuri Glodan is guessing what he has to live for.

The rocket that burned Paradovsky killed Glodan's wife, his wife's mother and his three-month-old daughter.

My family is my whole life, really. I lived for their sake”, he tells CNN.

When my daughter came to life, I learned the meaning of life. As soon as I woke up in the morning, I understood who I was going to work for every day. Every action was motivated by my family. Now it's very difficult”

Glodan was on his way back from the food store and candy for the Orthodox Christmas party when he heard the attack that destroyed his family.

I heard an explosion. I immediately felt in my heart something happened. I immediately tried to call my wife. Her phone already had no access to”, he says.

Emergency services arrived at the collapsed building, but Glodan says he believed he would save his family and another person approached him in aid.

We crossed through the police cord and arrived on the fourth floor where my” residence was located, he says.

When I got there, it was hard to know what I was looking at... the water was pouring everywhere. There was fire, smoke, pieces of metal broken in every corner.

Emergency teams joined them, and they were able to find the body of Glodan's wife and then his wife, Valeria.

Then came an alarm that the building could collapse so they were forced to leave, says Glodan.

Emergency workers were able to evacuate the bodies of two adults, but there were no signs of his daughter.

I kept shouting: There's another kid left. Did you find the baby or not?

And then his fear was confirmed. After other ruins, a rescuer found his daughter's body, killed along with her mother and grandmother.

Glodan went to the mess the next day. He found his daughter's chariot from what was left of the hall, where the family had believed it would be safer.

“The internal part of the cart was all covered with blood, and it was pierced by a part of the wall or by the fragments that had hit it”.

Glodan says his wife and her mother were trying to enjoy life to the fullest. Besides working with animals, Valerie was a talented writer and photographer, he says.

Even his little daughter, Kira, had made an impact, even though she had lived short - inspiring her grandmother.

Glodan says the war launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin has cut off the fate of many innocent victims.

My only feeling is hate”, he says.

In his hospital room, Paradovsky is experiencing the same emotions.

I just hate who did this. Anger and a lot of fear”, he says.

♪ Sokol Berisha, Periscopi