A horrified couple have filmed their city on fire after a devastating drone attack.
Russia launched “one of the largest strikes on Kyiv” on Monday (9 Jun) night, according to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
He claimed Kremlin forces sent 315 war drones to different parts of the country.
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The attack on the Ukrainian capital left widespread damage and injured four people.
One young couple filmed the dramatic scenes on Tuesday (10 Jun) morning.
Yuri and his wife Alona were shocked to see the burning cityscape from their apartment balcony.
They shared a clip on X and it quickly went viral with 365,000 views and thousands of comments.
The couple said: “Our home view this morning.”
“I’ve watched this same skyline burn more times than I can count,” Yuri, 31, who works as a programmer, told Need To Know.
“Russia is not confused, Russia is not retaliating, Russia is executing a plan.
“A rotting imperial mindset is driving this war. It targets civilians deliberately then dares to call it ‘justice’.
“It drops bombs on apartment blocks and whispers ‘denazification’.
“They work around the clock to blur the line between good and evil, to turn murder into policy and genocide into narrative.”
Yuri, who originally comes from Donetsk, said he has been cut off from his grandmother in the eastern Donbas region.
He said: “The propaganda they built around ‘protecting Donbas’ is personally insulting.
“My grandmother still lives there – cut off from me, from the world, imprisoned in the name of ‘liberation’.
“I can’t help her.
“What haunts me is not what Russia has done, it’s that they won’t stop because now they can’t.
“And that’s what we’re doing – stopping them, one drone, one trench, one grave at a time.”
As well as the bombing of Kyiv, two citizens were killed during a drone attack in the port city of Odesa on the same night.
Bombs reportedly hit residential buildings and medical centres, including a maternity ward.
Zelenskyy said the Dnipro region and Chernihiv region were also targeted.
The Ukrainian leader added: “For yet another night, instead of a ceasefire, there were massive strikes.”
Moscow said the strikes were in response to Ukraine’s recent attacks on air bases inside Russia.
President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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