"Everyone is dead, it hurts me a lot": almost the whole family died in a skyscraper in the Dnipro

In Dnipro, almost the entire Figurny family was killed in a Russian rocket attack on a residential high-rise on 14 January. Of the seven relatives who were in the apartment, only one woman was saved 

This was reported by the sister of the late 15-year-old Hanna Figurna and family friends on the Internet. 

At the site of the missile attack, tents of humanitarian missions are working today. In particular, the UNHCR-supported association "Proliska" provides people with warm clothing, mattresses, bedding, dishes, heaters and solar flashlights. Everything is new.

The Figurny family

“Today I learned what I was most afraid of. Now I'm officially applying. Yes, they are all recognized, except for Uncle Hanna Andrija. They're all dead, it hurts me, it hurts me a lot. I don't see the point of life without them. I just cried as much as I could, there was nothing left in me,” she wrote.

On the day of the tragedy, loved ones gathered after a year of separation due to full-scale war. The children came to their parents from Odessa for the weekend. The bodies of the victims were recovered from the rubble on the third day of the search.

The day before the strike, Marina Figurna and her husband Andriy Osynskyi traveled from Odesa to Dnipro to visit relatives they hadn’t seen since the start of the war, Figurna’s friend Arina Medvedeva wrote on Instagram. Marina, Andriy, and five other family members were in an apartment in the building at the time of the strike. Only one was saved from the ruins.

“Today is the scariest day of my life. My family; my beloved sister Anna, who’s only 15 years old; Marina and Andriy, who came from Odesa; and my Aunt Yana and Uncle Sasha all came to visit our grandmother and grandfather on Victory Embankment, and a missile hit their building. We don’t have any information; there were seven people, and they’ve only found our grandmother, who’s currently in the ICU. Our grandfather died. I’m in a lot of pain. I can’t live without them,” Ksenia, a relative who wasn’t in the apartment at the time of the strike, wrote on Instagram.

Iryna and Maksym Shevchuk

Iryna and Maksym Shevchuk moved from Nikopol to Dnipro with their children Karolyna and Timur six months ago to escape constant shelling from Russia. According to Valeria Marchenko, a relative of the family, when the rocket struck the building on January 14, Iryna and Maksym were in their apartment, while the children were outside. Karolyna and Timur are currently in the hospital. Their parents didn’t survive the attack.

Maria Lebed

15-year-old Maria loved to dance and grow flowers. Her father died a few years before the strike, so her mother is raising three children alone. When the bullet hit, Maria's mother was at work. “My sister called [Maria] Oksana's mother yesterday to find out if everything was okay. She was at work and didn't know what had happened; her daughter was at home. The first person who went to the site was my brother Pasha … But the building was no longer there,” wrote a friend of Maria's mother, Yevgeniya Bondarenko, on Facebook. Maria did not survive the attack.