"Killed in his own bed": 11-year-old Maksym, who died in a Russian attack on Kyiv

Eleven-year-old Maksym Veremchuk was asleep in his bed when he was killed during a Russian strike on Kyiv on 16 April.

Source: Radio Liberty on social media

Details: Maksym's father, Ihor, said the family did not hear the air-raid warning.

"The missile hit, and it killed my son in that room. My other son, who was sleeping by the window, is alive. But he [Maksym – ed.] was sleeping a little further away. We hadn't even heard the air-raid warning when it all happened. We didn't have time to react and run out," Ihor said.

Maksym's grandfather said he last saw his grandson at the weekend, when the whole family gathered together to celebrate Easter.

Maksym was a fifth-grade student at the Children's Engineering Academy, the institution said on Facebook.

Background: On the night of 15-16 April, Russia attacked Kyiv, hitting a residential building in the capital's Podilskyi district. Four people were killed in the city and over 60 others were injured.

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