STRICTLY Come Dancing star Motsi Mabuse has revealed fears she’ll never see her husband’s Ukrainian hometown after it came under attack from Russian forces.
The professional dancer, whose husband Evgenij Voznyuk is from Ukraine’s second city Kharkiv, has been horrified by the devastation caused by the Russian invasion.
Today she wrote on Twitter: “2020 we booked our flights to spend Easter in Kharkiv and return a day before my birthday, because of lockdown we cancelled the trip. 2021 we were still on lockdown! 2022 seems I will never see the town my husband was born . He wanted to show me his motherland! #Kharkiv.
“Hopefully one day !! Another day filled with horror ! Please let this stop.”
After seeing a video of a Russian airstrike hitting Kharkiv’s Freedom Square, she wrote: “I am just speechless!!!!!!!!!!!”
Motsi’s in-laws remain in the under siege city, unable to flee to the Polish border before the city came under attack.
She previously wrote: “Our parents have been told to go outside and to switch off water & gas! They have no possibility to get to the Polish border,” Motsi wrote.
“It’s heartbreaking hearing my mother-in-law crying this morning, afraid and there absolutely nothing we can do! Just sad honestly!”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of war crimes after the Kharkiv blitz killed 11 and destroyed a school.
Footage showed a barrage of rockets or cluster bombs falling over residential areas in the city which has a large Russia-friendly population.
The midday raid left at least 11 dead, including three children – and other shelling also destroyed a school.
Kharkiv has been holding out staunchly against the Russian invaders even though it is just 25 miles from the border.
But this resistance appears to have led to Vladimir Putin unleashing a devastating blitz on the city’s 1.5million people.
It came amid chilling warnings that Russian generals have been ordered to take the city at all costs.
