Ukrainian Woman Killed By Russian Fire While On Her Way To Deliver Food At A Dog Shelter
Anastasiia Yalanskaya was killed near Bucha about 28 kms outside the Ukrainian capital on Friday. She and two others were on their way to a shelter home to deliver food to the dogs there when they were killed. Friends and family say her car was deliberately targeted at close-range by Russian troops.
The ongoing war in Ukraine has claimed yet another civilian life, this time a young woman volunteer who was on her way to feed dogs in a shelter home in Kyiv.
The woman, identified as Anastasiia Yalanskaya was killed near Bucha, about 28 kms outside the Ukrainian capital on Friday.
Anastasiia and two others were on their way to a shelter home to deliver food to the dogs there when they were killed.
According to Global News, Anastasiia's friends and family say her car was deliberately targeted at close-range by Russian troops.
¡°I asked her to be extra cautious. That nowadays, a mistake costs extremely much,¡± her husband Yevhen Yalanskyi said. ¡°But she was helping everyone around. I asked her to think of evacuation but she did not listen.¡±
¡°She was one of the best human beings I knew. She was committed to help, to help her friends and relatives and whoever needed help,¡± he added.
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Anastasiia had been delivering food in Bucha to a dog shelter that had been without food for three days.
Her last Instagram story on March 3 showed her sitting in the back of the vehicle, surrounded by bags of dog food.
'We bought food for volunteer dogs that were left without the right food,' she wrote on Telegram on March 1.
¡°We are not scared. We are united like never before. We help each other. We stand for hours at roadblocks and thank those who protect us,¡± she wrote in a social media post earlier, adding that ¡°We will win.¡±
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The exact circumstances that led to her tragic death are still unclear, but it shows how civilians are increasingly becoming the victims of the war.
This is despite the Russian claim that its troops are not targeting civilians.
According to the UN human rights office, as of Saturday, it has confirmed the deaths of 351 civilians in Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on February 25.
The Geneva-based office said that another 707 civilians were injured between February 24 and midnight Friday.
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The rights office uses strict methodology and only reports casualties it has confirmed. It said Saturday it believes the real figures are considerably higher, ¡°especially in government-controlled territory and especially in recent days,¡± as the receipt of information from some places where there was intense fighting was delayed and many reports were still undergoing corroboration.
Ukrainian officials have, however, presented far higher numbers.
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Bobins Abraham is the Assistant News Editor at Indiatimes. He has more than twelve years of experience in TV and digital journalism. An avid student of history and geopolitics, he is a conservationist and environmentalist at heart. He writes on environment, sustainability, human-animal conflict and more.
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