A Ukrainian saw the killing of his wife and two children on "Twitter"... and knew them from their "bags"!
A Ukrainian man said he discovered the murder of his wife and two children near Kyiv after learning about photos that went viral on Twitter.
"I recognized the baggage and then I realized what had happened," Serhiy Perebennis told the New York Times.
The newspaper reported that Peribennis was helping his ailing mother in eastern Ukraine when his wife decided to flee their home in Irbin, near Kyiv, with their two children last week after their apartment was bombed by Russia.
"I told her, 'Forgive me because I can't defend you,'" Perebennis remembers what he told his wife the night before she died.
He added, "I tried to take care of one person and that means I can't protect you. She said, 'Don't worry, I'll go out'."
A shrapnel from a mortar shell killed the family.
Hours after their deaths, the photo went viral on social media, and Perepenes confirmed the deaths of his wife, Tetiana Perebinis, 43, and their two children, Mikita, 18, and Alyssa, 9, based on his identification of their luggage.
He explained that it was important to take a photograph of his family's death.
"The whole world should know what is happening here," he added.
According to Al Arabiya.net, the photo was taken by Lynsey Addario, a New York Times photographer, who witnessed the fall of a series of mortar shells before the family was killed.
Addario told CBS News, "I went forward and found somewhere behind a wall and started filming. Indeed, within minutes, a series of mortar shells fell increasingly closer and closer to our position until one landed about 30 km away. feet from where I was standing and I killed the mother and her two children.”
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