<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">Images of a bright, family kitchen in Ukraine, which was exposed to the world when a Russian missile strike tore off its external wall, have caused shock and sadness on social media.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">The apartment was home to well known boxing coach Mykhailo Korenovsky, who was killed in Saturday's attack. His wife and children reportedly survived.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A video of Korenovsky celebrating a recent birthday with his family in the same flat has also been published.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The strike in Dnipro killed 40 people.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The victims included three children, with more than 30 people still unaccounted for on Monday evening.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The image is striking for the stark contrast between the normal and the abnormal; the everyday domesticity of the cosy kitchen is framed by the sudden and total devastation delivered by a Russian attack.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The modern-looking kitchen with bright yellow cupboards remained remarkably intact after the strike, despite the total destruction of its external wall.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A bowl of apples sits on the table, dishes lie next to the sink waiting to be washed and oven gloves still hang neatly from a line of hooks.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Here people cooked, had kitchen conversations, celebrated holidays, laughed, argued," Kyiv MP Zoya Yarosh wrote on Facebook.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She compared the destruction of the building to the fate of her country: "These are the wounds on the body of Ukraine. Wounds on our homes."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On social media, many people highlighted the small details in the photograph, suggesting a family getting on with their life as best they could, despite the raging war.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"When I look at this kitchen all I see is the flat I grew up in, the flat my grandparents lived in, the flat my cousins lived in, because we all had two stools tucked under the kitchen table just like that," wrote Ukrainian Alina on Twitter.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Before the missile strike, the kitchen seems to have been at the centre of a happy family moment - a child's birthday party.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In a video published online and reposted by Ukraine's armed forces, a young girl smiles as she is presented with a huge birthday cake, and blows out her four candles. The same yellow cupboards are clearly visible, as are the oven gloves and television on the wall.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Those in the video are believed to be Mykhailo Korenovsky's family, who reportedly survived the strike, while the boxing coach did not.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is not clear when the video was filmed, but it is a stark reminder of how suddenly war can destroy lives.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Perhaps it was him [Korenovsky] who bought those apples for his family, left standing on the table after the building collapsed," said BBC Russian journalist Liza Fokht. "Or perhaps it was him who left a plate in the sink - there'll always be time to wash it later." BBC</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>