One more tragedy for Ukrainian families. A woman and her three children were killed by a Russian missile in Ukraine, leaving the father as the only survivor.
Only the father of this family survived. After the attack on Kryvyï Rig (Ukraine) by a Russian missile on Monday, November 11, his wife and three children were killed in their apartment. A tragedy which moved the country and which unfortunately resonated with the story of many other Ukrainian families decimated by Russian strikes.
The body of his wife, aged 32, was found in the evening under the rubble resulting from the demolition of a section of a residential building. A photo of rescuers carrying his body in a white bag was published by Ukraine's emergency services.
The next day, the public prosecutor's office announced that it had discovered the bodies of the three children. The two boys were aged two and ten and the little girl was two months old, their grandmother told local media.
The presence of the father in a different room from the rest of the family is, according to her, the reason why he survived.
“UNICEF is shocked by reports of an attack that claimed the lives of three children from the same family, as well as their mother, in Kryvyi Rih,” UNICEF said in a statement published today. even.
The organization wished to highlight the recent increase in the number of children killed in Russian attacks in Ukraine by specifying that “during the first 12 days of November, intense and sustained attacks killed at least four children and injured more than twenty.”
A TRAGIC TOTAL OF THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN KILLED
More than 589 children have lost their lives and 1,681 have been injured in the country since the start of the invasion, according to figures from the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office.
It should be noted that these figures are well below the actual losses due to the impossible access to the areas occupied by the Russian army, constituting almost 20% of Ukrainian territory.
The tragedy of Kryvyi Rig, the hometown of Volodymyr Zelensky, has caused turmoil in Ukraine. Social networks have seen a proliferation of posts featuring the photo of the father, Maksym Koulyk, grieving at the scene of the attack.
“It’s an indescribable sorrow! Condolences to loved ones,” Ukrainian Human Rights Commissioner Dmytro Loubinets said on Telegram. A day of mourning was declared two days after the tragedy by the municipality.
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