Professional pianist Irina Maniukina is seen removing the ashes from her piano, hours after a bomb was dropped about 10 metres from her home in Bila Tserkva, south of Kiev.
The 48-year-old musician was forced to flee the city where she was born after a Russian airstrike reduced the area to rubble on March 5.
Irina Maniukina, who is a mother of two, pulls the protective cover off her large, white piano, which is covered in ash and dust. Then she begins to play a beautiful melody and behind her can be seen broken windows and debris, while outside neighbors stand around a huge crater in the ground.
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Her daughter, Karina Maniukina, posted the video on TikTok, writing: "Don't judge, my mother is a professional pianist and decided to play some piano." The video has over 1.6 million views, 225,000 likes and more than 3,900 comments.
"In the morning, mother and my brother went to the market and I was in the kitchen making pancakes. The night was calm and there was no siren that morning. I didn't hear any noise, I just suddenly saw a black cloud to my right. Up to that moment, I hadn't heard any aircraft or a bomb. After the explosion, everything became ashes and debris. I looked at the house and saw a fire in my brother's room," Karina says."
And she continues: "Before that, I had already called my mother and they came as fast as they could. They couldn't even get into the house because there were wires all over the road. They ran in and together we all put out the fire. After that, we all breathed a sigh of relief, and my mother decided to sit at the piano. She started playing, not to relax, but to gather her thoughts and say goodbye to the house, to remember the good times we had there."
As she explains, there was a lot of dust and ashes on the keys and everyone was in shock. "We called friends and family and my mother started cleaning the house of glass and damaged furniture, also taking out what was left. The bomb exploded 10 meters from our house," she says.
The family has been forced to travel 300 miles to Lviv, in western Ukraine, where they have been staying since Monday. Karina says the town, which is near the Polish border, is a "very quiet and peaceful place."
Source: Lifo.gr
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