On the night of April 24, 2025, Kyiv was shaken by yet another massive missile strike. Rockets and drones targeted the capital. Twelve people were killed. Ninety were injured. Among them was 80-year-old Vira Kolomiiets, a lifelong resident of Kyiv who had always lived in the same place — where her parents' house once stood, later replaced by apartment buildings.

"I ran out in my nightgown, covered in blood," Vira says. Her voice is calm — marked by both dignity and pain. "Everything was scraped — my face, my hands, my fingers. Here I have a displaced fracture, but thank God, it's not too serious," she says.

Her home — an apartment in the building that had been erected on the site of her family's former yard — was damaged in the strike. The blast wave shattered the windows and sent fragments flying through the flat. "Eighty years I've lived — and now, war again," Vira says with bitterness. But she is one of those who will not break.