Ukrainian agriculture ministry employee lost both her children in Russian attack on Kyiv – video

Anastasiia Straulat, who worked at Ukraine's Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, was injured in a Russian missile strike on Kyiv's Shevchenkivskyi district on 8 July. As of 9 July, she was in a serious condition in intensive care. Source: a statement from Ukraine's Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food

Details: Anastasiia's two children were killed in the attack on their apartment building.

"Staff at the Ministry of Agrarian Policy send heartfelt condolences to their colleague Anastasiia Stratulat, who lost her dearest ones during yesterday's bombardment of the capital: her son Andrii and her daughter Mariia. We share this great anguish and bow our heads in profound sorrow," the statement says. The ministry stated that their employee was with her children at the time of the attack and was severely injured.

As of 9 July, Anastasiia was in a serious condition in an intensive care unit at one of the city's hospitals. Zoia Shkurko, a colleague of Anastasiia's, wrote on social media that Anastasiia's daughter Mariia loved animals and volunteered at a rescue organisation, Chotyrylapyi Santa (Four-legged Santa).

"I didn't recognise her - Nastia (Anastasiia) Stratulat, a beautiful, young and enthusiastic mother of two children who have now become angels, my colleague at the Ministry of Agriculture, and my neighbour who lives only 10 minutes away. When I read the news, I didn't realise it was about people I knew," Zoia said.

The Russian missile attack on an apartment block in Kyiv's Shevchenkivskyi district also killed 10-year-old karate star Maksym Symaniuk, his younger sister Anastasiia, and their mother, Zoriana, 40. According to Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of Kyiv, 33 Ukrainians, including five children, have been killed in the Russian missile strike on the city as of 14:00 on 10 July. Later, it was reported that a boy who was injured in the Russian attack on the Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital had died in hospital.

Svitlana Lukianchuk, a 30-year-old from Lviv who worked as a paediatric nephrologist, was also one of those killed in the Russian attack on the hospital. 

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