Maxim was on leave from the front lines to celebrate his wife's birthday for the first time in six months when Russian missiles struck the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, damaging his home.
"I am very angry," said Maxim, who appeared more determined than ever to push back Russian forces in northeastern Ukraine and protect his loved ones, according to the French news agency AFP.
Maxim was due to return on Monday after his week off but the Ukrainian army has now given him an extra day to clean his house.
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Expressing his anger and frustration, he said that it had been more than six months since I came home. I had the right to celebrate my wife's birthday here.
"We are fighting on the front line to protect these places but they are still able to target them," he said.
Two days after the partial destruction of the only bridge between Russia and Crimea, Russia fired 83 missiles at Ukraine, 43 of which were shot down by Ukrainian air defenses, the Defense Ministry said.
According to the latest official figures, 40 others (missiles) also hit civilian infrastructure, killing at least 11 people and injuring 64 across Ukraine.
According to military governor Valentin Reznichenko, four people were killed and 19 injured by Russian missiles in the Dnipro region.
However, a spokesman for the emergency services said that "not a single person was killed in the main regional city, also known as Dnipro. The city was lucky."
In a residential neighborhood in Dnipro, where Soviet-era buildings are sprawling, the first missile strike hit a disused factory.
A second missile attack occurred 10 seconds later in the middle of the road.
A video on social media shows flames rising higher than the 12-story building where Maxim lives after the missile strike.
Oleg Kumar, a 30-year-old businessman, thought he was in a movie scene. "There was a huge red light and smoke everywhere," he said. It was hell.
The house of another resident of the city, 29-year-old Indri Khaliq, was also affected by the missile attack. His five-year-old daughter Milana, wearing her pretty pink coat, now believes one thing: 'Putin is a bad guy.'
