
Ukrainian tennis player Dayana Yastremska has said that her family's apartment in Odessa was destroyed in a Russian attack. "A Russian missile destroyed our apartment in Odessa. The only thing that survived was a Roland Garros towel," Yastremska wrote on Instagram.
Photos and videos she posted showed an orange Roland Garros towel hanging in the rubble of a residential building. "A piece of world tennis history survived a Russian rocket. Our home did not," the 2024 Australian Open semifinalist wrote.
Yastremska said the building was hit directly by a Kalibr cruise missile. The governor of the Odessa region, Oleh Kiper, said 35 people, including a baby, were injured and two people were missing after the Russian attack on Odessa and nearby Chornomorsk, carried out overnight between September 12 and 19 with missiles and drones.