“A night of horror in Kyiv. Sirens wailed for 12 hours straight,” she wrote, adding that thankfully all her colleagues are “all safe, but shaken and horrified.”
“The war touched the European Union. And no one will convince me that this was not Putin’s intention. No one is safe. Not families in their homes. Not children in their beds. Not those who represent the EU in Kyiv. Putin will stop at nothing. He bombs, destroys, murders. This is not a military operation. This is terror.”
Earlier that day, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha posted photos of the aftermath from inside the EU's representative office building.
On June 10, Mathernova reported about a Russian drone near miss the EU mission in Kyiv.
Rescuers in Kyiv recovered three more bodies from under the rubble of a residential building that had been hit by a Russian missile on Aug. 28, raising the death toll from Russia’s overnight attack on the capital to 14.