It was a summer’s morning in Kherson. Tatiana and her 87-year-old father were making their way home after a food shop when she heard a sudden buzzing in the street.

She tilted her head upwards and saw a Russian kamikaze drone drop an explosive in the middle of a street packed with civilians.

Tatiana immediately started running, struggling to drag her dementia-stricken father with her. He does not understand that his country is at war. “I dropped and crawled on my stomach but did not raise my head … I just prayed we would get home,” she told The Telegraph.

Russia has been known to use kamikaze drones to drop explosives on Ukrainian soldiers but in the southern city of Kherson, where only the River Dnipro separates the territory from the threatening presence of Russian forces, they have increasingly been used to target civilians.