Married couple killed in Russian attack on Kyiv, leaving their 10-year-old daughter orphaned
A married couple, Liliia Velkova and Vadym Velkov, were killed in Kyiv due to Russia's large-scale attack on the night of 13-14 November. Their ten-year-old daughter has been left without parents.
Source: Ukrainska Pravda.Zhyttia (Life)
Details: Ukraine's nuclear energy company Energoatom reported that both Liliia and Vadym worked at a separate division of the Administration Department of Energoatom. Colleagues expressed condolences to the couple's family and loved ones.
"Their lives ended instantly – under the rubble of a home that should have been a place of safety, warmth and peace. Two lives were taken by the terrorist state, leaving behind only ruins and emptiness", the company wrote.
Background:
- During the attack on the night of 13-14 November, Russian forces attacked Ukrainian cities with 430 UAVs and 18 missiles, including ballistic and air-to-surface ballistic ones.
- Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast, as well as Kharkiv, Odesa and Sumy oblasts, came under fire. In Kyiv, the Kyiv Institute of Automation was damaged.
- A Russian drone struck a residential building where Chornobyl disaster first responders and families of those killed in the catastrophe live. Among the deceased was Nataliia Khodymchuk, the widow of the first victim of the Chornobyl tragedy. She sustained severe burns and died in hospital. A kindergarten teacher from Kyiv, Svitlana Vashchenko, was also killed in the attack.
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