Ukraine War: 4-year-old girl killed in Russian missile attack is buried – with unnamed mother still in hospital | World News
The distraught family of a four-year-old child killed in a missile attack in Ukraine has attended his funeral – while his unnamed mother remains in intensive care.
Liza Dmytrieva died in Russia bombed the central city of Vinnytsia on Thursday. The explosion left her mother, Iryna, in a “serious” condition in an intensive care unit.
The family did not say Liza would be buried on Sunday, fearing it could affect her condition.
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The couple went to see a speech therapist who was treating Liza, who has Down syndrome, when they were caught in the explosion.
At least 24 other people were killed, including two 7- and 8-year-old boys, and more than 200 people were injured.
At Vinnytsia’s 18th-century Transfiguration church on Sunday, the little girl was laid to rest in a crown of white flowers.
“Look, my flower! Look how many people come to you,” her grandmother, Larysa Dmytryshyna, whispered, stroking the girl as she lay in an open coffin with flowers and teddy bears beside her. Teacher.
Liza’s father, Artem Dmytriev, stood silently crying.
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A woman carries a portrait of Liza at a funeral. Photo: AP
According to the AP news agency, Orthodox priest Vitalii Holoskevych also cried.
He trembled and said, ”Because each of us we bury, we all grieve. We are losing our brothers and sisters.
”We know that evil cannot win. “
When the war began, the family fled the capital Kyiv for Vinnytsia in the southwest, where until Thursday was considered relatively safe.
Russia has focused on the area east of the Donbas, but has begun attacking other locations in an attempt to gain territory from Ukraine and crushed the morale of its leaders, civilians, and troops as the war neared the five-month mark.
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The moment Russian missiles hit the Ukrainian city
The cruise missile attacks on Vinnytsia were launched by a Russian submarine and are the latest incidents that have claimed civilian lives and sparked international outrage since the presidency. Vladimir Putin launched the invasion on February 24.
Just before the explosion began, the family posted a video on social media showing Liza reaching for the handlebars to push her car, happily walking through the city, wearing a denim jacket and white trousers.
Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine
After the Russian missile attack, Ukraine’s emergency services shared photos showing her lifeless body on the ground next to her bloodied cart.
The videos and photos went viral, the latest from the brutal war in Ukraine that terrorized the world.
