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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Tom Batchelor

Ukrainian man learned wife and two children were killed by mortar fire after seeing image of their strewn bags

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A man whose wife and two children were killed by mortar fire in Ukraine as they tried to flee the fighting has said he realised his family had died after seeing images on social media of their strewn belongings.

Sergii Perebeinis was not with the family when they were killed on Monday in a civilian refugee corridor while trying to escape from the suburb of Irpin towards the relative safety of Kyiv as he had been caring for his mother in Donetsk.

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