The interlocutor said that the family had a holiday, but the uncle could not attend due to illness. He wanted to come to his niece on February 17th.
“Now there is no one to congratulate and no one to give a gift to. I regret that I didn’t get to visit my brother often; the last time I held Lerochka in my arms was a month ago,” the man said.
Valeria's six-year-old sister was in kindergarten at the time of the shelling; she was not injured.
The Ukrainian army struck Belgorod on the afternoon of February 15. 19 people were recognized as injured, seven more people died, including a child. The Chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, demanded to establish the identities of all persons involved in the terrorist attack.
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has received information about the attack by Ukrainian troops, but is so far “unable” to classify the attack as a war crime.