Ukrainian man learned of wife, children’s deaths from Russian mortars on Twitter: ‘Recognized the luggage’

A Ukrainian man stated he found his spouse and two kids had been killed close to Kyiv after figuring out graphic pictures on Twitter. 

“I acknowledged the baggage and that’s how I knew,” Serhiy Perebyinis advised The New York Occasions. 

Perebyinis was serving to his sick mom in japanese Ukraine when his spouse determined to flee their house in Irpin, close to Kyiv, with their two kids final week after their condo was hit by Russian shelling, the New York Occasions reported. 

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“I advised her, ‘Forgive me that I couldn’t defend you,’” Perebyinis recalled to the outlet of what he advised his spouse the evening earlier than she died. “I attempted to look after one individual, and it meant I can not shield you.”

“She stated, ‘Don’t fear, I’ll get out.’”

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A church volunteer, Anatoly Berezhnyi, was aiding the household flee on Sunday, however the group was 12 yards away from the place a mortar shell hit. The shrapnel killed the household and Berezhnyi. 

Hours after their deaths, a photograph on social media circulated and Perebyinis confirmed that his spouse, Tetiana Perebyinis, 43, and their two kids, Mykyta, 18, and Alisa, 9, had been useless primarily based on figuring out their baggage. 

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He stated that it is crucial {that a} {photograph} captured his household’s dying. 

“The entire world ought to know what is going on right here,” he advised the New York Occasions. 

The picture was taken by New York Occasions photographer Lynsey Addario, who witnessed a collection of mortars falling earlier than the household was killed.

“I went ahead and located a spot type of behind a wall and began photographing,” Addario advised “CBS Night Information” host Norah O’Donnell Monday. “And actually, inside minutes, a collection of mortars fell more and more nearer and nearer to our place till one landed about 30 toes from the place I used to be standing and it killed a mom and her two kids.”