A BBC reporter was distraught today after seeing that her home in Ukraine had been destroyed while live on air.
Olga Malchevska joined BBC World presenter Karin Giannone in the news studio to discuss the ongoing attack on Ukraine from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Footage showed parts of Ukraine which had been destroyed by Russian bombs overnight, which was when the Ukrainian journalist recognised pictures of her family home.
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Karin said: "It would seem that the fighting is very close now to the centre of Kyiv."
Olga replied: "It looks like that from the pictures I'm getting, but basically -" She stopped talking as she smiled and added: "I've just got a message from my mum.
"Finally, I couldn't reach her."
She added: "She's been taking shelter, she's hiding in the basement. Luckily she wasn't in our building."
The footage continued as it showed a building destroyed as a fire engine attended.
Karin said: "And you're talking about that actual building?"
Olga replied: "And this actual building my home."
She went quiet, as Karin said: "Olga, I don't want you to be forced to talk about something that is so sudden and traumatic. This is unimaginable."
Olga responded: "I'm just trying to find out where is my flat. Because I was living on the sixth floor and basically it's a 10 storey building, there is a 16 storey building linked to that.
"I just can't believe it in my head. What I'm seeing is somewhere I used to live."
Karin later shared the clip to her Twitter, as she captioned it: "The moment my @bbcukrainian colleague @Yollika sees pictures of her family home, partially destroyed overnight in #Kyiv.
"We did not know until that moment it was her actual building that had been hit.
"Thankfully Olga’s family is safe."
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