« Ternopil is the name of our hometown, which was bombed by Russia while we sang on the Eurovision stage, » musical duo Tvorchi said on social media.
Russian forces struck the western Ukrainian city of Ternopil, the hometown of Kyiv’s Eurovision entry, as the war-torn country’s musical act took to the competition stage in the U.K. on Saturday night.
Two civilians were hospitalized after strikes on warehouses in Ternopil, the head of the area’s regional government, Volodymyr Trush, wrote on Telegram on Saturday. They had suffered « burns and shrapnel wounds, » Ternopil Mayor Serhiy Nadal added on social media.
« Ternopil is the name of our hometown, which was bombed by Russia while we sang on the Eurovision stage, » musical duo Tvorchi, who represented Ukraine in this year’s song contest, wrote on Instagram on Saturday night. In a post to Twitter, with a photo showing her alongside the act’s members, Andrii Hutsuliak and Jeffery Kenny, the U.K. ambassador to Ukraine, Melinda Simmons, said the two members of Tvorchi « performed minutes after their university home town had been bombed.
