A "sweet" Ukrainian eight-year-old girl and her entire family have been killed in an evil Russia rocket attack.
On April 28, a missile killed eight-year-old Ulyana Troichuk along with her 34-year-old father Roman and stepmother Antonina, as well as her 29-year-old grandmother Valentina Troichuk.
"The day before the family was supposed to leave for the village, but for some reason they were delayed. They thought they would spend the night in the apartment, then leave on Friday morning. But, unfortunately, they all died," says the headman of the village of Apolyanka, Cherkasy Oblast, Ihor Stork.
In one of the videos, the girl's maternal grandparents were filmed at the scene of the tragedy, crying and hugging.
Almost all of the 23 victims of the attack on Friday died when two missiles slammed into an apartment building in Uman, with six children among the dead.
Ulyana's aunt told Ukrainian media: "She was a very kind, modest and sweet girl. She never asked for anything for herself. I remember when we went to the store, I asked: 'Ula, what delicacy do you want to buy?' And she answered that she did not need anything."
Olena Odaiska, 28, and her one-and-a-half-year-old son Vanya were among the last to be found from under the burnt rubble of the house.
Elena's husband, Roman Odaiskyi, was not at home that night, as he went to Mykolaiv to deliver grain. He returned to the horror and recognised their clothes beneath the rubble.
"It is simply barbaric to kill peaceful people. The Russians cannot defeat us on the battlefield, so they take revenge by launching missiles at peaceful cities. This is a terrorist country. The child and his mother were still sleeping and watching dreams, outside the window when a rocket flew by," the godfather of Elena told Ukrainian media.
Mother Inna lost two of her children, 17-year-old Kyrylo and 11-year-old Sophia, who both died almost immediately because their apartment was located on the eighth floor.
Her husband, Dmytro, had raced to the kids’ room moments after a Russian rocket hit. He found their youngest child, a 6-year-old boy, in another room and unharmed.
“I did not know what to do,” Dmytro told the New York Times, “Do I look for my older children or do I help my wife and little one out of the house? Since I could not see my older children, I ran out.”
