Ukrainian singer Alina Grosu found herself in the epicenter of a tragedy near Kyiv: the day before the attack, she had stayed at the 'Citadel' hotel and restaurant complex, which was subsequently destroyed. According to the artist, at the moment of the strike she was outside the building, so she was not harmed. This is reported by the lifestyle project WAVE of 'RBC-Ukraine', citing Grosu's own post on social media.
How the singer ended up in the epicenter
According to WAVE, Grosu arrived in the capital on the eve of the premiere of her new song and checked into one of the hotel rooms. The artist published a photo of the room key and explained that it was in this very room that she could have been during the attack. 'This is the key to my room, which I checked into upon arriving in the capital to hold the song premiere. One of these rooms is mine, or rather, the window frame from it,' the singer wrote, thereby confirming that the building she had been staying in was destroyed.
'The shockwave threw my car aside'
Grosu said that she saw the moment of the attack with her own eyes and that the shockwave was so powerful that it threw her car aside. 'It all happened before my eyes. The shockwave threw my car aside,' the artist described what she experienced. According to her, everything changed in literally minutes, turning a planned visit to the capital into a life-threatening situation.
A stroke of luck that saved her life
The singer named a stroke of luck as the key factor in her survival: she had been delayed at a meeting and therefore did not return to her room at the moment of the strike. Grosu separately noted that she was deeply struck by the realization of how close to tragedy her family could have been. The artist thanked God that her son, together with his grandmother, was not waiting for her at the hotel at that moment. In closing, she expressed her condolences to everyone who lost loved ones or survived that night as a result of the attack.
Contradictory data
In the official version presented in the article, the cause of the complex's destruction is named as an attack on ammunition depots in the village of Mila in Kyiv Oblast, as a result of which the 'Citadel' hotel and restaurant complex, located on the Zhytomyr highway, was destroyed. However, the business owners give a different assessment of the situation on social media: they claim that people were hiding in the building at the time of the shelling, and point out that, by their logic, military objects should be located far away from civilian infrastructure. Thus, one side describes the incident as a consequence of a strike on a military object, while the other emphasizes that civilian infrastructure, which became a shelter for people, was located nearby, and raises the question of the permissibility of such placement.
Reaction of the complex's owners
The owners of 'Citadel' stated that the complex is 'years of work, investment, jobs, plans, dreams and life,' and that now they are 'forced to stand before the ruins' and watch as everything they had built disappeared in a matter of hours. 'And we are not going to stay silent,' they added, addressing the public. At the time of preparing the article, independent confirmation of certain details, including the circumstances of people being found in the building and the consequences of the strike, was not provided in the available sources, so part of the facts relies on the statements of the singer herself and the complex's owners.
