Thread by @Lyla_lilas

Thread. #VictimsOfRussia
1/ Oleksandr Zdanovych-Yakhno 🕯️ 4-year-old Sashko Zdanovych-Yakhno was with his grandmother in Sukholuchchia. When the full-scale war broke ou , they couldn't leave because of intense combats and blasted bridges.

2/ They were holding up for over two weeks, but on March 10, when heavy machinery of the Russians entered the village, the neighbours suggested getting to the opposite side of the Kyiv artificial lake. They wanted to escape using two motorboats. Sashko, his grandmother,

3/ and six more people were shelled . The boat carrying the boy turned over . His grandmother drowned , and Sashko disappeared. The search for the child had been going on for three weeks, but he was found dead...

4/ "Sashko, our little angel, is already in the Heavens! Today his soul has come to rest," wrote Hanna Yakhno, the boy's mother, on April 5.
(SRC: victims_of_russia)

5/ 🕯️ She could have 8 years old in July.
Alisa Hlans was severely wounded when her kindergarten in Okhtyrka, Sumy region, was shelled. Grads and Uragans hit the kindergarten with rockets. Her grandfather was trying to cover the girl, but it was in vain.

6/ A day later, on February 26, at 01:15 p.m, the girl died. Other children were wounded on this day too. The occupiers deprive innocent children of the most valuable thing - their lives, and it can't be forgiven.

7/ 🕯️ Andriy Diakonov, an entrepreneur, didn't leave his native city, Mariupol, regardless of the shelling and the siege. He was helping the locals survive these difficult times. Previously, he had worked as a speaker at the Mariupol TV station and managed the Olnight building

8/ company.Andriy Diakonov died on April 11, in the Prymorsky district while he was giving a lift to the locals, including a priest. As the entrepreneur and his passengers were going past the hotel Tourist, they saw a tree branch on the road and stopped to remove it .

9/ The car got under fire. Everyone , except the woman in the front passenger seat, were killed.

10/ 🕯️15-year-old Kateryna Avdienko died on March 9 on the road between the villages of Kolychivka and Lukashivka, which is 15-20 kilometers from Chernihiv. The girl, together with her mother and family friends, tried to leave the city that was bombed by the Russians.

11/ At around 7:20 a.m., Russian soldiers fired at the car that was carrying seven people. Of them, only the wife of the owner of the car, Lesya Chumak, and her three-year-old daughter survived. Kateryna, her mother Anna Sedlyar, the owner of the car Serhii Chumak,

12/ his sister and niece were killed. Kateryna graduated from the 9th grade of school #28 in Chernihiv. The girl was creative, engaged in dancing, liked to shoot videos for the Tik Tok, weave jewelry from beads, and cook.

13/ "Katya lived for today, enjoyed every moment. Friends and classmates miss her very much.
”The last message I received from Katya was on March 8 in our school chat: "We will definitely meet. Everything will be Ukraine! ", - says her friend, Olga Petrenko.

14/🕯️ Sofia Fedko would have turned seven years old in November. On February 24, she was killed by Russian soldiers. The girl and her family were evacuated from the Kherson region. The car in which she was, was targeted.

15/ Relatives of the victims who were at the scene say that when the Russians allowed them to approach the car, Sofya was still alive. They saw a hole in the girl's chest. Sofya was taken to the hospital, but they could not save her.

16/ Sofya's father Oleg Fedko is a patrol policeman from Kherson, he was on duty that day. He says that he loved his daughter very much. They enjoyed fishing. The family was planning to buy a house.

17/ She loved to dance. Her mother and brother were also killed by the Russians.

18/ 🕯️Russian soldiers killed 4-year-old Klym Chikmaryov in March in Bucha. The boy, together with his mother, father and older brother Matvii, wanted to escape from the city, which was then occupied by the Russians. Their car was fired upon.

19/ "As soon as we left the house, the BMP stopped opposite. All cars stopped, shelling began. The car caught fire" said Oleksandr Chikmaryov, Klym's father. He was the only one from the family to survive. On April 13, Klim would have turned 5 years old.

20/ 🕯️Oleksiy Amelchakov was the happy father of 11-year-old Masha and 8-year-old Sonya. Together with his wife Angela, they raised their children and built their happiness in Mariupol. Until the war knocked on the door of their home...

21/ Angela, Sonya and Masha were found under the rubble of a nine-story building on the street Moskovska, 61.

22/ 🕯️ Lyudmila Chernetska died on April 23 - a Russian rocket hit the apartment building where she lived with her husband Bohdan. He also died. Shortly before the tragedy, the couple learned that they would have a child.

23/ Lyudmila worked as a master of eyelash extensions, was a bodybuilder, won the title of champion of Odesa and vice-champion of the Southern region. Trainer Natalia Dichkovska recalls: << Lyudmila set a goal for herself and always went for it.

24/ She was too tall for bodybuilding, but this did not prevent her from training successfully and taking prize places. Lyudmila married Bohdan Chernetsky, in March the couple learned that they were expecting a child.

25/ 🕯️Yulia Zdanovska
"Thank you, but I will stay in Kharkiv until victory," volunteer Yulia replied to her friend in Telegram. This message turned out to be the last. 21-year-old Yulia Zdanovska. She was killed by a Russian shell in the very center of Kharkiv.

26/ It happened on March 3, 2022. Yulia was talented mathematician. She took an active part in Olympiads since school years. In 2017, she was part of the Ukrainian team at the European Mathematical Olympiad.

27/ She won silver, beating 44 teams, including Russian women. After receiving a bachelor's degree at Shevchenko University,Yulia joined the "Educate for Ukraine" program. So, for the last six months, she taught science in one of the schools of the Dnipropetrovsk region.

28/ 🕯️ Anastasiya Yalanska
"Now I understand even more how important it is to have the opportunity to simply take and see those who are dear to you," Anastasia from Kyiv wrote in her Telegram channel. - We will all soon be together, safe and in peace. I believe in this "

29/ This is a post that she wrote on February 26, 2022,the secondday of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine. 26-year-old Anastasiya Yalanska started a Telegram channel very recently, planning to write about work, books and

30/ everyday life. "A new day - a new text. Good luck to me and inspiration :)" - concluded the girl. And indeed, every day, starting from January 30, Anastasia reminded about herself in Tg. But on March 4, blog subscribers did not read the results of Nastya's day.

31/ She was killed. Anastasiya, together with her friends Serhiy Ustymenko and Maksym Kuzmenko, engaged in volunteering. They helped those who needed it the most. While returning from the shelter for dogs, their car came under fire in the area of ​​the city of Bucha.

32/ It happened not far from Serhiy's parents' house. They did not have time to arrive. They all died. I will talk about Serhiy and Maxim also in the thread.

33/ 🕯️Vanda Obiedkova was 91 when she died in Mariupol, besieged by the Russian invaders. The lady was born in 1930 ; when she was 10 , she lost her mother due to the Nazi's Holocaust.
"Mom loved Mariupol. She never wanted to leave this place " - her daughter Larysa said.

34/ While dying in the Mariupol basement, deprived of a warm place and water , Vanda Obiedkova wanted to know only one thing - why was it happening ? She died on April 4 , not because of her old ag , not in her own bed, but as the victim of the horrible war of the 21st century,

35/ which touched her native city. Her daughter says: " Mom didn't deserve such a death." But she could only watch her mother's life fading away. Risking their own lives, they buried Vanda in the park, a kilometer from the Sea , under the sounds of constant shelling .

36/ 🕯️ Oleg Ivanov.
"It was hard for Daddy to let us go, but he knew it was necessary. He didn't have time to help us get on the train because he had to go to another place on business. We said goodbye. Daddy told me to take care of the family" - Kateryna recollects her

37/ last meeting with her father. This meeting took place on March 8, at the Kramatorsk train station. A month later, this was the place where a 49 - year - old man died from the enemy's rocket Tochka - U. Since the beginning of the full - scale invasion of the Russian army ,

38/ he had been working at the Department of Civil Defense, Mobilization, and Defence Work at the Donetsk State Regional Administration. Oleg had accompanied people to the evacuation trains, which then headed far away from the war. The man died in one of Kramatorsk hospitals due

39/ to a considerable loss of blood. He had a wife, a little son, and a 25- year- old daughter.

40/ 🕯️ Iryna Filkina
The entire world has seen the photo of a lady with a red manicure who had been shot dead and whose body was found in Bucha after the Russian occupiers had abandoned it. In April , she would have been 53. Iryna is survived by her two daughters .

41/ They also lived in Kyiv's suburbs but managed to evacuate abroad on time . Iryna stayed and spent a week in the Epicenter trade center ; she cooked for the locals, hiding there. Her daughter, Olha Shchyruk , told about it in her interview for CNN.

42/ On March 5, Iryna tried to leave Bucha. However, the car, taking people out, didn't have enough place. So she decided to go back home by bicycle . Her children persuaded her to leave, telling her that it would be dangerous. The lady didn't make it, she never back home.

43/ They recognized their mother only when the sad photo, made by Reuters , flew around the world. They recognized her hand and her manicure . Now , Iryna's daughters are starting a foundation in the memory of Filkina @mama_ira_fond (on Instagram), to help the children who have

44/ suffered from the war.

45/ 🕯️Oleksiy Yevtushenko
Oleksiy was supposed to celebrate his 17th birthday, but he was killed during the evacuation. He became the victim of Russia's shelling of the Kramatorsk train station, where 59 people were killed and over a hundred were wounded.

46/ Oleksiy studied at the Bakhmut Vocational Training Center ; he was to become a car repairman and an electric and gas welder. "He was a kind , compassionate, and open-hearted boy" his friends wrote about him.
On April 13, Oleksiy was buried in his native Bakhmut.

47/ 🕯️Kateryna Dyachenko
Katia was only 11.
The shell, launched by the Rashists , hit the house where Kateryna Diachenko was. Her body was found later under the rubble.

48/ Anastasia Meshchanenkova, a rhythmic gymnastics coach , reported Katia's death on Instagram: " Can there be any justification for this? Look at this talented girl. She should have won stages and lit the world with her smile ! What are the children guilty of ?

49/ I believe that a place in hell is waiting for everyone related to this crime. The sooner , the better " - wrote Meshchanenkova on her Instagram page. A little star of Ukrainian rhythmic gymnastics . She won several times in her age group in big competitions.

50/ 🕯️ Mykhailo Korostylov
As a result of Russian shelling in Kharkiv on May 26, five-month-old Mykhailo Korostylov died. On that tragic day, the boy's father, Mykola, came with his son to pick up his wife Oleksandra from work.

51/ At that time, Oleksandra Korostelyova (mother's baby) was finishing her work at a beauty salon in Kharkiv, where she recently got a job as an administrator. When Mykola and the baby entered the salon, the rocket hit the second floor of the building.

52/ The child and his father died, Oleksandra Korostylva survived, the woman was taken to the hospital. " I collapsed, I fell to my knees, Mykola was all black. Just a T-shirt and blood in the mouth. He chokes on her. Where is Myshko, where is my son? I don't see him,

53/ he doesn't cry, he's gone," Oleksandra said. The boy was born on December 30 - less than two months before the start of a full-scale war. From the first days, his parents were engaged in volunteering, but in the end they decided to go to a safer region.

54/ After May 9, the family returned to Kharkiv. In another region, it was not possible to get a job, but in Kharkiv, the woman was offered this job. They believed that the city had become safer.

55/ 🕯️ 14-year-old Arseniy Kalabin from Kyiv died on February 28 in the village of Kukhari, Ivankiv district. It happened during the shelling of the Russians, the child received a shrapnel wound in the head. After being wounded, Arseniy lived two hours.

56/ On February 28, his aunt Maryna Kalabina tried to take Arseniy's body to Kyiv. Her car was shot, she also died.

57/ 🕯️ On the first day of the full-scale war, policeman Oleg was ordered to evacuate from Kherson to Mykolaiv. His family also decided to leave the occupation.. His parents, wife and two small children were in one car. The Russians shot them.

58/ Allegedly because the driver did not follow the orders of the occupiers... The elders died on the spot. The children were still alive, they were taken to the hospital, but it was too late... 6-year-old Sofiyka and 1.5-month-old Ivan died from multiple gunshot wounds.

59/ only the father survived.

60/ 🕯️ 12-year-old Veronika Kuts died on March 3 on the outskirts of the village of Yagidne, Chernihiv region. That day, the girl's mother, Victoria, together with her husband, Peter, decided to evacuate from Chernihiv - Veronika's younger sister was also traveling in the car

61/ with them. On the way in the vicinity of Yagidny, the road was blocked by stones. Peter got out of the car to pull them away. The shelling began. Peter and little Veronika died. The Russian occupiers kidnapped the girl's mother and sister and kept them in the basement for

62/ the next 25 days... Veronika studied in the 5th grade. She had many friends and was a cheerful girl. She liked to shoot videos in which she talked about her life. "Nika, you will remain in everyone's memory as a little lighter," wrote Olena, an acquaintance of the family.

63/ 🕯️5-year-old Kyrylo Pryimenko was killed by a Russian air strike on Sumy on March 7. The Russian military bombarded residential buildings in the private sector of the city. Two of Kyrilo's brothers, his mother, father and grandmother also died.

64/ In March, the Pryimenko family planned to evacuate, packed their suitcases and waited for the "green corridor". In August, the boy should have turned six years old.

65/ 🕯️ 5-year-old Olesya Stolpakova died under the rubble of a multi-story building in Izyum, Kharkiv region. The girl and her relatives were hiding from enemy shelling in the basement,

66/ but on March 9, the Russians ransacked a residential building from a tank and in addition, they carried out airstrikes on it. Olesya, her mother, father, sister, grandmother, grandfather, great-grandmother and aunt died.

67/ In total, more than 50 bodies were found under the rubble of that building. On April 27, Olesya would have turned six years old. The girl went to kindergarten, she was to become a first-grader from September. She planned to study at the same school as her mother Olena.

68/ 🕯️ 31-year-old Inna Kulyk died on April 3 in Kharkiv as a result of Russian shelling in the Slobid district of the city. During the enemy attack, the woman was walking with her children near her house ...Her children survived.

69/ Inna Kulyk graduated from the Faculty of Biology of Kharkiv. According to friends and acquaintances, the woman had a real flair and a passion for science. "Inna was a very goal-oriented, talented and kind girl," said Marina, an acquaintance of the deceased.

70/ 🕯️ 37-year-old Oleg Repin died on March 9 in Izyum under the rubble of a house on Pershotravneva Street 2, which was hit by Russian aircraft. More than 50 victims of this shelling are known. Whole families died.

71/ Together with Oleg, the lives of his mother, father and grandmother were cut short.. Graduated from Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics. He worked in a Croatian company that had a representative office in Kharkiv.

72/ The man executed projects commissioned by American and Canadian enterprises. "Oleg was an open, decent and kind person. He had many friends. He liked to travel the world, he liked football, paintball, rode a bicycle, "says Anatoliy, a childhood friend of the deceased.

73/ Oleg read a lot, was an inventive and active person. Ran marathons, liked to relax with friends. However, he did not forget about his parents and grandmother: he took them to Kharkiv to classical music concerts and operas.

74/ 🕯️ One-year-old Nicole Deineko died on March 8. The Russians dropped two half-ton bombs on her house in the village of Yurivka in the Zhytomyr Region. She is the granddaughter of Volodymyr Obodzinsky.

75/ The man lost his whole family in a moment: his wife Natalia, son Volodymyr, daughter Ivanna, and grandchildren Denys and Nicole. At the time of the Russian airstrike on his native home, he was in Kyiv at work.

76/ Nicole is the youngest of the twins. Her brother Denys was born a little earlier. Volodymyr says that the children were not alike in appearance or character. Nikole was cheerful, and Denys was more serious.

77/ "I spent a lot of time with them, playing so that my wife and daughter could rest a little," says Volodymyr. The family had many plans, in particular they wanted to show little Nicole and her brother the sea. But their dreams and plans were cut short by Russian bombs...