A hero survivor of Adolf Hitler’s evil Buchenwald concentration camp has been killed by shelling in Vladimir Putin's war which he brazenly is claiming is to rid Ukraine of Nazis.
War veteran Boris Romanchenko, 95, died in Kharkiv on Friday but his loss was only announced on Monday.
He had also been incarcerated in the Second World War in the Bergen-Belsen, Peenemünde, and Mittelbau-Dora camps.
A Russian strike hit his home in blitzed Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city.
His death was confirmed by his granddaughter, according to reports.
A video from 2010 shows the concentration camp survivor who died in a cruel attack on his home.
His death as also tweeted by a memorial account for a concentration camp in Buchenwald, which was established near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937.
It read: "Boris Romantschenko survived the concentration camps Buchenwald, Peenemünde, Dora and BergenBelsen. He was killed last Friday in a blast at his home in Charkiv, Ukraine. He was 96-years-old. We are stunned.
“According to his granddaughter, he lived in a multi-story building, hit by a shell.
"Boris Romanchenko worked intensively on the memory of Nazi crimes and was vice-president of the Buchenwald-Dora International Committee.”
Earlier this week Russian media outlet Pravda reported three "mercenaries" from the Tennessee National Guard were killed while fighting in Ukraine.
The Mirror told how it identified the Americans by name and gave military ranks for each of them, citing information from pro-Russian militia in Ukraine's Donetsk.
The report even offered an intricate explanation for how the three were identified, using items from a backpack "near the remains of one of the militants" -- including a Tennessee state flag.
The US National Guard has responded to the claims, saying that "the reporting by Pravda is patently false".
Despite the pain and suffering sparked by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there was a lighter moment when an unnamed girl attempted to lift people's spirits
The young Ukrainian amazed a crowd sheltering from Russian attacks as she sang 'Let it Go' which showcased her incredible voice in a Polish charity concert.
Known only as Amelia, the little girl performed the song from the animated film Frozen, to lift everyone’s spirits as they sheltered.
She has been filmed singing to an enormous crowd after she and her family fled to safety in Poland.
A woman named Marta Smekhova shared the original video on Facebook on Thursday, explaining that she had received permission from Amelia’s mother.
She wrote: "From the first word in the [bomb shelter] came complete silence… everyone put their business aside and listen[ed] to a song by this girl who was just beaming light… even men couldn’t hold back the tears."
