In an emotional and sad video, this musician from Ukraine is playing one last song on her piano at home as a farewell to the home where she grew up after it was destroyed by a Russian bomb.
The professional pianist Irina Maniukina is seen brushing the ashes from the piano, hours after a bomb fell 30 feet from the home in Bila Tserkva in the south of Kyiv.
The 48-year-old has been forced to flee the city she was born in and grew up after the airstrike by the Russians caused disaster and ruins.
A Heartfelt Moment: Maniukina Plays the Piano in Her Home One Last Time
The mom of two was filmed taking out the protective covers off the white grand piano and then sitting down and cleaning the dirt away.
She then started to play in front of the bombed-out windows and debris. The emotional moment is felt through the video as the camera shows the remains of the pianist’s home.
Outside, her neighbors are seen standing around one huge crater. Her daughter, Karina, shared this video on her TikTok and captioned it “don’t judge-my mom is a professional pianist and decided to play to let go of this case”.
The video has gone viral and garnered more than 1.6 million views and more than 225,000 likes. More than 3900 comments were left by people heartbroken by this sad video.
One user wrote: “This is absolutely incredible and heartbreaking, just so many emotions from this video!”
Her Daughter Explains the Video & What Happened to the Family
Karina also explained that in the morning, her mom and her brother went up to the market and she made pancakes in the kitchen.
During the night, it was quiet and there weren’t any sirens. She didn’t hear any sounds; however, she suddenly noticed an orange-black cloud and until that moment, she hadn’t heard an aircraft or a bomb.
After the explosion, it was all smashed and in ashes.
She looked around their house and there was a fire starting in the room of her brother. She had already called her mom and they came as soon as possible, but couldn’t drive to the house due to the wires laying on the road.
Her mom played not only to relax but to say her goodbyes to the house and remember all of the good moments they had in their home.
The family was forced to flee 300 miles to Lviv in the west of Ukraine and they’ve been living there ever since, a city close to the border with Poland, a quiet and peaceful place, according to Karina.
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