“Bomb my house”: a Ukrainian millionaire handed over to the Kiev government the coordinates of his brand-new mansion taken over by the Russians

A Ukrainian millionaire contacted his country's army to give them coordinates of his mansion and ask them to destroy it after learning that Russian troops were using it to fire rockets at Kiev.

Businessman Andrey Stavnitser sacrificed the “beautiful” house he had just finished building to destroy 12 Russian vehicles.

“It was an obvious decision for me, there's not much you can do today to help the military, and that was one of the opportunities I had,” she told Good Morning Britain.

The man was forced to flee his home in Ukraine when Vladimir Putin's troops invaded the village and occupied his home on March 5.

Stavnitser had left his security team to protect his home, but Russian forces captured and interrogated them after stripping them.

He later heard that the Russians were looking for “Nazi messages” on their phones, which they destroyed after finding no evidence of Nazification in Ukraine.

After a few days of capture, Russian forces released the security guards and sent them to the forest, where they walked for days in the desert without being found. Since their phones were destroyed, they couldn't contact anyone.

Eventually, they arrived at the shelter and soon contacted their employer, the man whose house had just been invaded.

“If they asked me two months ago what I would feel if there were hostile soldiers inside my house, I would have said anger and anger,” Stavnitser said. “However, this is not what I felt. I felt disgusted, dirty, watching some of these guys walking inside my house.”

After talking to his security team and hearing that they had survived, the millionaire came up with an idea.

He began to check each camera in the house individually, but to his disappointment he found that most of them were destroyed. But the Russians had missed one.

A small webcam was still working without the Russians knowing it, allowing Stavnitser to spy on the invaders who were now occupying his home.

What he saw was a multitude of military uniforms. In addition to seizing their belongings, Russian troops used the mansion as a warehouse to store goods stolen from Ukrainian neighbors: they stacked televisions, laptops and iPads in the rooms.

To his horror, he saw military vehicles pass through a window, including a BM-21 Grad rocket launch system, with a range of 40 kilometers. He realized that his house was being used as a stage for firing rockets at Kiev and killing his compatriots.

After that, he said the decision was simple. He passed the coordinates to the Ukrainian army and told them to attack.

He was able to count the destroyed vehicles from the webcam after the bombing ended. Approximately 12 military vehicles were destroyed.

“It's not about money, it's about effort put into the house,” he added. “I just finished building it. It was a beautiful house, actually. But I want to do everything I can to help Ukraine win because we are protecting Europe.”

The millionaire personally knows Ukrainian President Zelensky and had worked with him when the government was developing a Covid-19 strategy for southern Ukraine.

He said he is proud to have a president like Zelensky and thanked Britain for its support during the war, calling on the country to increase its arms shipments and military support to Ukraine.

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