“A Russian missile killed my wife and my baby”

Yuriy Glodan had just left the flat where he lived with his family to go shopping when he heard the news of the explosion last Saturday.

At the entrance of his block of flats in Odessayelled at the police to let him into the burning building. When he arrived at her apartment, he found the bodies of her wife and her mother, who had been killed by a Russian missile that had ripped through the lower floors of the block.

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Your baby’s body Kira, 3 months, was discovered later. Yuriy first saw him when she returned to the apartment on Sunday.

The deaths of three generations of a single family have unleashed outrage and revulsion in Ukraine after two months of war.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky was visibly upset when talking about the death of the baby during the attacks.

“Like her [Kira] threatened Russia? It seems that kill children it’s just a new national idea of ​​the Russian Federation,” Zelensky said in his evening address to Ukrainians, calling “bastards” those who planned and carried out the attack.

Five other people were killed in the missile strike.

Yuriy was in the wrecked building on Sunday to find what he could salvage from the apartment. Photo albums, his wife’s collection of sugar packets, handwritten notes. He found his baby stroller in pieces.

Yuriy and his daughter, who was killed in a missile attack on Saturday, April 23. (FAMILY HANDOUT).

“If I leave things in the apartment, they will become rubbish and people will throw them away,” he told the BBC. I want to keep it to myself memories“.

He and Valeria went partner for nine years.

“She could find joy in everything. Odessa was her favorite city. She worked in public relations and could communicate with a lot of people, understand them. I admired how good writer what it was,” he said.

“She was a great mother, friend, with all the best qualities. It will be impossible for me to find someone else like Valeria. She was perfect. Such a person can be given to you only once in a lifetime and she is a gift from God.”

Kira had been born at the end of January, just a month before the start of the war.

A few weeks after that, Valeria posted on Instagram that she was living with “a new level of happinessafter the birth of their first daughter. “Our baby girl is now 1 month old,” she wrote then. “It’s been the best 40 weeks.”

Yuriy showed us photos of Kira on his phone that his wife sent him.

Yuriy looks at photos of his wife and daughter with our reporter.

“We were very happy when he was born,” he says. “She was in the maternity when she gave birth. It is very difficult for me now to realize that my daughter and my wife are no longer here. My whole world was destroyed by a Russian missile.”

He wants the world to know what happened to his family.

“What is happening is a pain for my family, for our city, for Ukraine, it is a pain for all civilization. I hope our story will help stop this war.”

When we leave, he hands us some diapers in a bag, one of the few things he has been able to recover from the apartment.

“Please take them away,” he says. “Give them to charity. I don’t need them anymore”.

Source: Elcomercio