Pregnant in Kyiv in wreckage of flat hit by Russian drone
Instead, the 30-year-old found herself sifting through the charred remains of her second-floor flat in Kyiv, wrecked in a Russian drone attack on July 21.
'I don't know what sort of fate this is, why this happens, for what reason,' she told Reuters, clutching her belly as daylight poured through a gaping hole into that was her living room.
Around her, broken pieces of a couch and bed were clumsily stacked and once-sleek kitchen shelves were covered in shattered glass and dust.
Ukrainians such as Zhupanyna have endured months of worsening Russian air strikes that have killed dozens and upended daily lives since peace talks broke down earlier this year.
On Monday Russian forces unleashed a fresh wave of attacks involving hundreds of drones, wounding eight people in Kyiv, as it continued grinding forward on the battlefield.

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