Russian Missile Leaves Ukraine Woman With Just One Memento Of Late Husband

She and two friends were drinking tea inside the house when the missile slammed into the roof, she said. "It was so quick. It was terrifying."

The Russian missile turned Vera Kosolopenko's small home into a fiery pyre that consumed the bible and all of the other precious mementoes that she cherished of her late husband.

“I have lost everything that connected me to him,” she wept on Saturday as she stood by the smoldering remains of the house destroyed by the missile a day earlier. “All I have left is the portrait engraved on his gravestone.”

The diminutive 67-year-old widow is lucky to be alive.

She and two friends were drinking tea inside the house when the missile slammed into the roof, she said. “It was so quick. It was terrifying.”