Polina, Sofia Kudrin and mum Svetlana Zapadynskaya.
(Picture: Facebook / east2west news)The younger brother of Polina, the ten-year-old girl who was killed by Russian gunfire in Kyiv, has died.
Semyon, aged five, was left fighting for his life in hospital after his family’s car was hit with a hail of bullets as they tried to escape Ukraine’s capital on Saturday.
Parents Anton Kudrin and Svetlana Zapadynskaya, who were both vets, died alongside their middle daughter, Polina.
Semyon died at the Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital on Wednesday, a family friend told the Telegraph.
Polina and Semyon’s older sister Sophia, aged 13, is thought to still be in intensive care in a different hospital.
A picture of Polina, a Harry Potter fan with pink-streaked hair, was first shared on social media by the city’s deputy mayor Volodymyr Bondarenko.
She was the first identified child victim of the conflict.
Mr Bondarenko said: “Her name was Polina. She studied in the 4th grade of school in Kyiv.”
Earlier this week, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky said 16 children had been killed, although the figure is likely to be higher.
Addressing the European Parliament, Mr Zelensky said: “Again and again, President Putin is going to say that it is some kind of operation and we are hitting military infrastructure.
“But where are our children? What kind of military factories do they work at? What tanks are they going with?”
Russia’s increasingly bloody invasion of Ukraine has shocked the world, with an estimated 2,000 civilians thought to have been killed as a result of heavy shelling on the country’s major cities.
Among the children to have died in the conflict was a 16-year-old called Iliya, who was killed as he played football near a school in Mariupol.
Another was an unnamed six-year-old girl from the same city, who was killed after Russian troops bombed her apartment block on Sunday.
As he attempted to rescue her, a doctor in blue medical scrubs turned to an Associated Press photographer and said angrily: “Show this to Putin: The eyes of this child, and crying doctors.”
Another boy was killed when a block of flats was hit by bombs in Chuhuiv, a small town outside Ukraine’s second city Kharkiv earlier this week.
