Home of Kavun.City chief editor damaged in overnight strike on Kyiv

Yet another Russian strike on Kyiv damaged the apartment of Yevhenia Virlych, chief editor of the Kherson-based media outlet Kavun.City in the early hours of June 17. The media worker reported this in a Facebook post and in a comment to IMI.

The blast damaged the windows in the Kyiv apartment rented by the Kavun.City chief editor Yevhenia Virlych / Photo by Yevhenia Virlych on Facebook

According to Virlych, the blast blew out the window frames in the apartment: the journalist was injured by the glass shards. “The glass fragment in my hand is from my hair. I was taking glass shards out of my hair. Saved by my curls once again,” she wrote.

The strike left her with numerous cuts from the glass and signs of a mild concussion, doctors say. Many of her personal belongings were damaged and the state of the equipment she used to work from home is still unknown.

The glass shard Yevhenia Virlych took out of her hair after the Russian strike / Photo by Yevhenia Virlych on Facebook

“20 minutes before half the apartment was flying towards my back, I had finished making a presentation on decommunization and decolonization of place names in Kherson. Symbolic,” the journalist added.

Yevhenia and her family are now staying with friends and plan to come back in a few days to assess whether the damaged house is inhabitable, as some apartments have been severely damaged.

She noted that Kavun.City and the Kherson network Rayon.in.ua continue to work as usual and that Kherson-based correspondents remain there.

Yevhenia Virlych's cat who survived the Russian strike together with his owner / Photo by Yevhenia Virlych on Facebook

“Everyone's alive, that’s what matters. A second birthday,” Virlych wrote, thanking her colleagues, friends, and family for their support.

She added she would be unable to work in the coming days and that she would be spending some of the donations to restore her housing and work space after the shelling strike.

As reported earlier, the homes of three media workers were damaged in Russia's mass drone strikes on Dnipro city on March 26 and 28, 2025.