An image of a teenage girl from Ukraine, wearing a ballgown that she would have worn for her prom ceremony is going viral on the internet. However, it is not just any ordinary image. The teenager is posing among the ruins of her destroyed school in Ukraine.

With more than 100 days into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the war has brought the world a near-daily drumbeat of gut-wrenching scenes.

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Anna Episheva, from Toronto, Canada, posted the image of her 16-year-old niece. The teenager claims that she studied at School 134 in Kharkiv before the country was invaded by Russia.

“Anna Episheva: My niece was supposed to graduate this year from her high school. She and her friends bought dresses and were looking forward to this day. Then Russians came. Her school was directly hit and destroyed. Today she came back to what is left of her school and her plans,” read the caption of the heart-wrenching image. Take a look:

Since the image was uploaded, the image has managed to gather over 36K likes.

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“A graduation party like no other. The epitome of defiance,” wrote a Twitter user. Another person wrote, “Very powerful photo. It speaks a lot about your resilience.”

Meanwhile, as the war continues nobody really knows how many combatants or civilians have lost their lives, and claims of casualties by government officials — who may sometimes be exaggerating or lowballing their figures for public relations reasons — are all but impossible to verify.