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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Kim Sengupta

‘She was lovely, playing her violin’: Russian missiles kill civilians who fled frontline to start new life

Slovyansk city mayor’s office/Supplied

The young siblings had fled their home near the frontline after barely escaping with their lives, and resettled with a new family in Slovyansk, where they should have been safer.

Kateryna, 25, was killed along with two members of her adoptive family, the Sudovas, when a missile struck their home in the early hours of Monday. Her brother, Ruslan, 12, survived but was seriously injured.

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