Youngest was 9 years old: what is known about mother and daughters killed killed in Russian attack on Lviv
Pravda Ukraine
A woman named Yevheniia and three daughters were killed in their home during the Russian attack on Lviv on 4 September. Their husband and father, Yaroslav, was injured and is in critical condition.
Source: Lviv Mayor Andrii Sadovyi
Details: Yaryna Bazylevych, 21, is the eldest of three daughters in the family. She worked at the Lviv – European Youth Capital 2025 office.
“It is with indescribable sorrow in our hearts that we inform you that our colleague Yaryna Bazylevych, who was only 21, was killed in the nighttime Russian attack.
She was a kind and bright person, a programme manager of the Lviv – European Youth Capital 2025 Office; she worked with us from the very beginning of the creation of the Youth Development Centre and later the entire TWORY [Create] network,” the youth centre said.
The middle daughter, 18-year-old Dariia Bazylevych, was a student at the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU).
She was a second-year student of the Cultural Studies programme, an active student, a mentor at UCU’s Volunteer Lab, and a Plast member (Plast is the National Scout Organisation of Ukraine). She studied at the theatre studio, studying various aspects of acting, the university said.
“Since I am a very creative person, I am interested in the culture and history of my country. In the future, I want to develop the culture of Ukraine and tell the whole world about it. This passion arose in me thanks to my family, who always shared with me stories about the trials our ancestors went through as a result of world wars, the Holodomor, and the Soviet Union. [Holodomor was a man-made famine in Ukraine, artificially created by the Soviets in 1932-1933; it is considered a genocide of the Ukrainian nation – ed.]
Apart from me, my parents are raising two more sisters, and we have an incredibly close-knit and harmonious family. My family is an inexhaustible source of support that cannot be compared to any other. They are the biggest pillar in my life, helping me to overcome any obstacles,” Dariia wrote in her motivation letter.
The youngest daughter, Emilia, was only 9 years old.
Yaroslav Bazylevych worked as a real estate agent.
Background: On 4 September, a Russian missile attack on Lviv killed seven people and injured 47. More than 70 buildings were destroyed, and seven architectural monuments were damaged.
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