Vladimir Putin attack kills groom days after wedding as heartbroken bride hits out

A young widow has spoken of her crushing distress after her husband of ten days was killed in a “damned” Putin drone strike on a Ukrainian city.

Florist Bohdana Vityaz, 26, revealed her spouse Yaroslav had died in a daytime attack by Russian forceson Dnipro.

“Today my husband was killed,” she said. “He was killed by damned Russia. We had been married for one and a half weeks.” The couple were killed in what Volodymyr Zelensky branded a “brazen” attack “in broad daylight targeting civilian infrastructure”. A total of 31 were injured.

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“My heart is broken,” she said. “Honestly, I don’t know how I will cope with this loss, because we were everything to each other.”

In a message to her slain husband she said: “You were the best person I ever knew. Words cannot express how deeply I love you.”

Grieving Bohdana said she had not had time to reregister to her married name after their wedding. “I didn’t even have time to change my documents before I became a widow,” she said.

The Russian assault comes after Putin has rejected repeated calls by Donald Trump to end the war. The assault on Dnipro involved multiple Iranian-made Shahed drones, intercepted partially by Ukrainian air defences. There was widespread panic as civilians sought shelter in broad daylight.

The attack on Tuesday came the same day as a family of four was wiped out in Sumy region when their home was targeted. A Russian strike killed Alyona Lesnichenko, 26, who was pregnant with twins, along with her husband Oleksandr, 35, and their sons Denys and Yehor, six and four.