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Tim Hanlon & Duncan Gorman

Heartbreak as Ukrainian mum-of-two plays piano to "say goodbye" to her bombed home

A Ukrainian musician has been filmed defiantly playing her grand piano after brushing away dust and ash in her bombed-out home near Kyiv.

Professional pianist Irina Maniukina, a mum of two, decided to play some music to show her feelings just hours after a bomb landed 10 metres from her home in Bila Tserkva, south of the Ukrainian capital.

The 48-year-old played the grand piano for a final time before she was forced to flee the city she was born in after Russian soldiers left the area in ruins last Saturday.

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