Reporter's Notebook: Mom and daughter's incredible account after Russian missile hit their...

Their apartment shook when the first missile landed nearby.

Ekaterina Volkova’s husband, Liosha, ran upstairs to check that she and their 7-year-old daughter Xenia were alright before going back downstairs to check on their dog, Ennie.

Then it went black.

Another Russian missile had struck their apartment.

Suddenly, Ekaterina said she could feel herself falling, through the debris. Their family apartment at the very top of a modern eight-story block in central Kyiv was caving-in as thick acrid smoke billowed up and across the city skyline. Where they had laughed, played and enjoyed family meals, there was now a triangular-shaped hole of carnage.