A husband discovered his wife and two children had been killed escaping Kyiv from a post on Twitter, he has tragically revealed.
Tatiana Perebeinis, 43, and her children Mykyta, 18, and Alisa, 9, were killed in Russian mortar bombing as they attempted to cross a damaged bridge out of Irpin, near the capital.
A photograph of them strewn across a pavement, with family friend Anatoly Berezhnyi, 26, who was helping them to safety, was shared widely on social media.