Apartment of Novynarnia journalist Maryna Tkachuk damaged in overnight Kyiv strike

The apartment of Novynarnia journalist, filmmaker, and documentarist Maryna Tkachuk was damaged in the Russian missile strike on Kyiv in the early hours of June 23. She reported this in a Facebook post and elaborated in a comment to the Institute of Mass Information journalist Valentyna Troyan.

“Amazingly, my children and I survived, which cannot be said about our home. And about the next building, which had casualties. Our beautiful house with the best neighbors in the world, who are now looking, bewildered, at our damaged house and their charred cars, the fantastically beautiful courtyard which everyone cared so much about — everything is destroyed. There is not a single apartment where the windows stayed intact. Our home was also damaged: of all the doors, only the front one is still standing,” Maryna wrote.

The apartment of filmmaker Maryna Tkachuk, damaged in the Russian missile strike on Kyiv on June 23, 2025 / Photo shared with IMI by Maryna Tkachuk

The apartment of filmmaker Maryna Tkachuk, damaged in the Russian missile strike on Kyiv on June 23, 2025 / Photo shared with IMI by Maryna Tkachuk

She said that it would be a while before her family can move back in to the apartment.

In a comment to IMI's Valentyna Troyan, Maryna Tkachenko said that her family had not yet applied for compensation.

“We just came back. Our section of the building suffered the most. All the windows in the apartment were broken, the frames were completely destroyed. We live on the 14th floor — there are no windows or window frames at all. No doors either — everything was blown away by the blast wave, only the front door remained. Furniture and appliances are damaged, the desk was overturned, the computers are broken. I work on remote, so it is very painful,” the filmmaker said.

The apartment of filmmaker Maryna Tkachuk, damaged in the Russian missile strike on Kyiv on June 23, 2025 / Photo shared with IMI by Maryna Tkachuk

The apartment of filmmaker Maryna Tkachuk, damaged in the Russian missile strike on Kyiv on June 23, 2025 / Photo shared with IMI by Maryna Tkachuk

Tkachuk said that no one from her family was injured.

“We have two children: the eldest is 18, the youngest is 12. They were in a windowless room, they were very scared — plaster and glass shards rained on them, but miraculously they were unharmed. The eldest son was helping the younger one. We are all in shock, but, thank God, we are alive,” she said.

The family left the apartment on their own, although some of their neighbors needed rescuers' help to get out.

“Usually, during an air raid alert, the children unlock the door in advance — we know from experience what happens when the door jams and you can’t get out. This happened to many of our neighbors — rescuers had to get them out. We left ourselves, the police asked everyone to leave the building at once due to the risk of it collapsing. Our family car was also damaged by the blast, but it still can to be repaired — these are all trifles compared to the fact that everyone lived. We are not allowed to come back home yet — they say the damage is serious, there may even be problems with the building's structure,” said Maryna.

According to her, the police briefly allowed them to enter the apartment and take their documents and a laptop. “For now, we will temporarily stay with our relatives: my brother has a spot for us. But we understand that this is for a long time,” the filmmaker noted.

As reported earlier, Russia's overnight missile strike on Kyiv on June 23, 2025, damaged the apartment of Ukrainian singer Taras Topolya. According to the Kyiv City Military Administration, six people were killed in the attack.