College sweethearts Mykyta and Sofia Lamekhov had simple dreams: safety for their family and a fresh start at life, away from the war they thought they had left behind in east Ukraine.

Mykyta, 23, and Sofia, 22, fled their front-line hometown of Sloviansk for the capital Kyiv, where they made a home for their two-year-old son Lev and the baby Sofia was expecting.

"Young people always have plans. It seems their whole life is ahead of them -- they want more, anything can be overcome," Sofia's father Svyatoslav Gaponov told AFP.

Around three years after they fled the fighting, however, the war caught up with them.

Last week, a Russian missile tore through their nine-storey residential building. Attacks that night killed 32 people in Kyiv.

The hours-long barrage was one of the worst on Ky

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