🕯 Nationwide minute of silence.
On April 30, 2022, Lyubov Panchenko, an outstanding Ukrainian artist, fashion designer, sixty-year-old, died in a capital hospital. During the Russian occupation of Bucha, she stayed in her house. She lived alone. She needed medical help and care, but she could not get it under the conditions of the occupation. She was 84 years old.
"On March 2, my husband stopped by my aunt's house and left a package with groceries. And the next day, the city was occupied by the Russian military. Lisova Bucha, where my aunt lived, was isolated. The soldiers were not allowed there or let out, and those who managed to pass came back alive. Lyubov Mykhailovna's neighbor was cooking food on the fire. One day her dog came up to him. The neighbor realized that he needed to follow him to the house. The aunt was not feeling well. He brought her liquid food, tried to feed her, but she ate almost nothing ",
- said niece Iryna.
Lyubov's work has always had Ukrainian motifs. She wove national ornaments into drawings and clothing design. During the Soviet occupation, she defended the Ukrainian language and culture. The USSR authorities persecuted the artist for her Ukrainian position.
🐕🦺Doberman Hannah. She joined the Pavlograd search and rescue unit "Antares" more than 4 years ago.
Hanna is an all-purpose dog that is well trained to search for both living people in the natural environment and man-made debris, as well as the dead.
On her personal account, there are more than 50 engagements and dozens of souls returned from 'non-existence'.
Despite all the difficulties and constant injuries to her paws, she works faithfully in search missions with the State Emergency Service, the military and the police.
U.S. Confirms Hamas Command Center Under S. Confirms Hamas Command Center Under Hospital
A U.S. intelligence official confirmed that Israel's claim about a Hamas command and operations center located under the Al-Shifa Medical Center in Gaza City is accurate.
Additionally, it was noted that Hamas fighters frequently siphon off fuel intended for the hospital.
These fighters often assemble and operate around the hospital, using the facility and its patients as human shields.
Source: CNN
Veronika Makarenko
April 28, 2023
In November, little Veronika would have been 3 years old.
An inquisitive, intelligent, kind girl was killed by a Russian missile along with her mother Olga.
The tragedy happened on the night of April 28, when they were sleeping. Relatives still cannot recover from grief...
During that night, Russian military launched a missile attack on various cities of Ukraine. One of the shells hit a private residential building in Dnipro, where Veronika and her mother Olha, who also died, were sleeping peacefully. Veronica's grandparents were hospitalized.
"Olya and Nika were bright girls. Mother and daughter moved to her parents' house – she thought it would be safer there than in an apartment in a high-rise building. But unfortunately, a Russian missile killed them...," said the aunt of the deceased, Tetiana Bilash.
Little Veronica was the family's favorite. She grew up as a lively girl who was interested in everything. She had a lot of toys. In the private house where she lived lately, there were cats and dogs, and Nika loved them very much.
"Rest in peace, my angels, I love you very much," said Tatiana.
Veronica is survived by her father, grandmother, grandfather, uncle and aunt.
The occupiers, after a new attack by Ukraine on the Russian Black Sea Fleet, began to move ships to Tuapse, - speaker of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Navy Dmitry Pletenchuk on the telethon.
“Those two landing ships [sunk by Ukraine] are not that big, but they’re not really small either. And considering where they stood, this is another significant loss for the Russians. And one of the results of our attacks is the further movement of ships. Now they have already reached Tuapse,” noted Dmitry Pletenchuk
According to him, the occupiers were never able to completely solve the problems with logistics, and now they are forced to change the mooring sites of their ships, thus responding to the dangers at sea that the Ukrainian Defense Forces created for them.
Note: Tuapse a town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, situated on the northeast shore of the Black Sea.
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