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A girl who survived the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 was killed in a Russian strike on Ukraine.
Natalia Khodemchuk was married to nuclear engineer Valery Khodemchuk – the night shift circulating pump operator at the ability plant, and the primary casualty of the explosion.
Almost 40 years later, she has died after an overnight Russian strike blitzed her flat in Kyiv – a part of a residential block housing Chernobyl survivors.
Natalia, who was rushed to hospital with severe burns covering 45% of her body, died hours afterward Friday.
Her death brings the variety of fatalities from last night’s attack as much as seven, with a minimum of 35 injured.
Social media users have responded with horror, with one X user writing: ‘Utterly monstrous. Her husband perished within the service of the Soviet Union, now Moscow has come back to inflict a similarly terrible death on her.’
‘She survived one among the worst disasters in history only to be killed a long time later by a drone strike in her own residence,’ one other wrote.
Khodemchuk’s husband, Valery, 35, was killed in 1986 when two powerful explosions tore through the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the dark.
He was the primary to die within the Soviet horror and his stays were never found. It’s believed he was ‘vapourised’ within the explosion.
Russian strikes on Friday night saw about 430 drones and 18 missiles wreak havoc across Ukraine.
President Volodymyr Zelensky described them as a ‘heinous’ try and terrorise the Ukrainian populace.
The aerial assault also hit Odesa within the south and Kharkiv within the northeast but was mostly aimed toward Kyiv, in response to Zelensky.
The overnight attacks follow the deaths of six people in one other Russian offensive lower than every week ago, which also damaged residential buildings and energy infrastructure.
Three people were killed and 12 wounded when a drone hit an apartment constructing in Dnipro, on November 8.
One other person was killed within the Kharkiv region and three were killed within the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, regional officials said.
Energy infrastructure within the regions of Kyiv, Poltava and Kharkiv was damaged, Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Svyrydenko said.
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