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Anastasiya Yalanska (L), Serhiy Ustymenko (second from right), and Maxym Kuzmenko (R) pose for a photo not long before being killed in Bucha, near Kyiv. Their fourth friend did not join the group on that day, and is alive.
Anastasiya Yalanska (L), Serhiy Ustymenko (second from right), and Maxym Kuzmenko (R). Their fourth friend did not join the group on that day, and is alive.
Three Ukrainian volunteers were gunned down by Russian troops after they delivered dog food to starving animals at a shelter near Kyiv. Anastasiia Yalanskaya, 26, together with Serhiy Ustymenko, 25 and Maxym Kuzmenko, 28, made the perilous journey to Bucha – 18 miles from Ukraine ’s capital. It is also close to the town of Irpin, where people are being evacuated to escape heavy shelling by Vladimir Putin’s forces.

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The trio are thought to have been driving to collect Serhiy’s parents when their car was deliberately targeted with ‘heavy weaponry’ by Russian troops on Thursday. Dmytro Zubkov, a friend of Maxym, told the Kyiv Independent the car, driven by Serhiy, was ‘obviously’ civilian. ‘Maxym was wearing a hat with a pom pom. They didn’t look like the military at all.’ The mayor of Bucha, Anatol Fedoruk, told how relentless artillery fire in the region meant people were unable to recover their loved ones. The Kremlin claims it is only attacking military targets – but several stories of whole families being wiped out and countless photos of destroyed residential blocks paint a very different picture.

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10582513 Young Ukrainian volunteer killed after delivering food to dog shelter PICTURED: Anastasiia Yalanskaya As Russian troops closed in on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, Anastasiia Yalanskaya insisted she would stay, even while her friends and family fled around her. The young Ukrainian woman was delivering food to a dog shelter in Bucha, 30 kilometres outside Kyiv, on Friday when she was shot and killed alongside two men she had been volunteering with. Yalanskaya?s friends and family say her car was deliberately targeted at close-range by Russian troops. Global News has been unable to confirm the circumstances of her death. Friends do not know why she was targeted, but believe Russian troops are increasingly targeting civilians at random as a way to scare the population into submission.
Anastasiia Yalanskaya had dropped off dog food at a shelter, where animals had been left without anything to eat for three days (Picture: Facebook)
Anastasiia’s last Instagram story on March 3 showed her sitting in the back of the vehicle with bags of dog food. The animals had been left for three days without anything to eat as Bucha was under heavy bombardment by Russian forces.
10582513 Young Ukrainian volunteer killed after delivering food to dog shelter PICTURED: Anastasiia Yalanskaya As Russian troops closed in on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, Anastasiia Yalanskaya insisted she would stay, even while her friends and family fled around her. The young Ukrainian woman was delivering food to a dog shelter in Bucha, 30 kilometres outside Kyiv, on Friday when she was shot and killed alongside two men she had been volunteering with. Yalanskaya?s friends and family say her car was deliberately targeted at close-range by Russian troops. Global News has been unable to confirm the circumstances of her death. Friends do not know why she was targeted, but believe Russian troops are increasingly targeting civilians at random as a way to scare the population into submission.
Anastasiia’s family believe she was deliberately targeted with ‘heavy weaponry’ (Picture: Facebook)
10582513 Young Ukrainian volunteer killed after delivering food to dog shelter PICTURED: Anastasiia Yalanskaya As Russian troops closed in on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, Anastasiia Yalanskaya insisted she would stay, even while her friends and family fled around her. The young Ukrainian woman was delivering food to a dog shelter in Bucha, 30 kilometres outside Kyiv, on Friday when she was shot and killed alongside two men she had been volunteering with. Yalanskaya?s friends and family say her car was deliberately targeted at close-range by Russian troops. Global News has been unable to confirm the circumstances of her death. Friends do not know why she was targeted, but believe Russian troops are increasingly targeting civilians at random as a way to scare the population into submission.
Messages sent on Telegram by Anastasiia as Bucha faces heavy shelling by Russian forces (Picture: Telegram/@yalanska_is_writing)
‘I asked her to be extra cautious,’ Anastasiia’s estranged husband Yevhen Yalanskyi said.

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‘A mistake costs extremely much, but she was helping everyone around. I asked her to think of evacuation but she did not listen.’

The car was found riddled with bullets, not far from Anastasiia’s home, the New York Post reports.
10582513 Young Ukrainian volunteer killed after delivering food to dog shelter PICTURED: Anastasiia Yalanskaya As Russian troops closed in on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, Anastasiia Yalanskaya insisted she would stay, even while her friends and family fled around her. The young Ukrainian woman was delivering food to a dog shelter in Bucha, 30 kilometres outside Kyiv, on Friday when she was shot and killed alongside two men she had been volunteering with. Yalanskaya?s friends and family say her car was deliberately targeted at close-range by Russian troops. Global News has been unable to confirm the circumstances of her death. Friends do not know why she was targeted, but believe Russian troops are increasingly targeting civilians at random as a way to scare the population into submission.
Anastasiia had almost made it back home before she was killed (Picture: Facebook)
10582513 Young Ukrainian volunteer killed after delivering food to dog shelter PICTURED: Anastasiia Yalanskaya As Russian troops closed in on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, Anastasiia Yalanskaya insisted she would stay, even while her friends and family fled around her. The young Ukrainian woman was delivering food to a dog shelter in Bucha, 30 kilometres outside Kyiv, on Friday when she was shot and killed alongside two men she had been volunteering with. Yalanskaya?s friends and family say her car was deliberately targeted at close-range by Russian troops. Global News has been unable to confirm the circumstances of her death. Friends do not know why she was targeted, but believe Russian troops are increasingly targeting civilians at random as a way to scare the population into submission.
The 26-year-old volunteer had struggled to move around the area amid continued attacks by Russian troops (Picture: Telegram/@yalanska_is_writing)
‘She was one of the best human beings I knew,’ Yevhen added.

‘She was committed to help, to help her friends and relatives and whoever needed help.

‘She loved animals. We had a dog and a cat.

‘She was the best partner I ever had.’

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Anastasiya Yalanska (L), Serhiy Ustymenko (second from right), and Maxym Kuzmenko (R) pose for a photo not long before being killed in Bucha on March 4, 2022. Their fourth friend did not join the group on that day, and is alive.
Maxym Kuzmenko worked in a Kyiv hookah bar which provided the Ukrainian army and medics with food after the Russian invasion
Anastasiya Yalanska (L), Serhiy Ustymenko (second from right), and Maxym Kuzmenko (R) pose for a photo not long before being killed in Bucha on March 4, 2022. Their fourth friend did not join the group on that day, and is alive.
Serhiy Ustymenko was driving the vehicle as it came under fire (Picture: Kyiv Independent)
Maxym worked in a Kyiv hookah bar which provided the Ukrainian army and medics with food after the Russian invasion.

‘He was always there for those who needed him,’ a friend said.

Meanwhile Serhiy, who co-founded a car repair shop in Kyiv, will be remembered by loved ones as someone ‘that would never betray you’.

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The article source: metro.co.uk