'Beloved' mum-to-be dies with husband in final embrace amid Russian drone attack

Colleagues of Viktoria Zamchenko, 34, six months pregnant, paid tribute to her fighting spirit after she and her husband Bohdan were killed in their apartment by a Russian drone attack on Kyiv

Viktoria Zamchenko, 34, was six months pregnant when she was killed (

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Colleagues of a pregnant woman who was killed along with her husband when an apartment building in Kyiv was hit by a Russian drone attack have paid tribute to her fighting spirit.

Viktoria Zamchenko, 34, was six months pregnant when she was killed along with her partner Bohdan and their cat Monday morning in a rush hour drone attack.

A total of four people were killed when the building was hit in central Kyiv in a second wave of airstrikes in a week.

Ukrainian soldiers fired into the air in an attempt to shoot down the drones after explosions rocked central Kyiv.

An anti-aircraft rocket could be seen in the morning sky, followed by an explosion and orange flames, as residents rushed for cover.

Ukrainian firefighters work on a destroyed building after a drone attack in Kyiv (

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Viktoria was a sommelier at the GoodWine store in Kyiv and her body was found in the rubble after the attack on the building.

A message from colleagues where she worked read: "She genuinely loved wine and her work. Today her body was found in an embrace with her beloved husband Bohdan and a cat in their home where the drone arrived. They were expecting a child.

"We loved Vika very much. We're sure you loved her too. It's hard to find the right words. But we'll say Vika's line, which she constantly repeated: 'We should feel less sorry for ourselves". We'll remember she was so strong. Forever."

About the deaths in the building, President Volodymyr Zelensky said: "In Kyiv, they killed a young family by hitting an apartment with an Ir...