“Kind and cheerful”: people share memories about 14-year-old schoolgirl killed in Russian attack on Sumy

Anna Kushnarova, a schoolgirl aged 14, was killed in the city of Sumy in a Russian attack along with her mother and aunt. Source: Kordon Media Details: On October 22, a Russian Shahed drone struck the family's home.

Anna's father survived, but received numerous injuries. The man, 50, was taken out from the destroyed house by the neighbours, but his wife and daughter remained trapped beneath the debris.

Upon hearing of the tragedy, Anna's older brother, who resides in Kyiv, departed for Sumy. What is known about Anna Kushnarova, 14

Anna Kushnarova loved cynological agility classes and had a four-legged pet.Stock photo: Anna Kushnarova on ?nstagram

Anna studied in the 9th grade of Sumy secondary school No.

27 of I-III degrees. Teachers remember her as a kind, sociable and diligent person.

"The team of educators, staff, and students at our school is in deep sorrow over the tragic passing of a ninth-grade student and her family. Good-natured, outgoing, understanding, happy, hard-working student, our astute girl...

There are no right words to convey the depth of [our] suffering, misery, and sadness," school employee Yuliia Rezontova wrote on Facebook. The girl was also fond of cynological agility sports and competed in them. Journalists report that Yuma, Anna's pet dog, survived the Russian attack.

Yuma is currently at the hospital in serious condition. "She was a wonderfully cheerful child who desired results and sobbed when something did not work. However, we always found solutions and achieved results.

I was devastated by the news...

I have no words to explain my hatred of Russia," Oleksandra, a cynologist who worked with Anna's dog, tells Kordon Media.

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