- Shortly before 11am, leaving speech therapy, Iryna Dmytriyeva and her four year old daughter Elizaveta “Liza” (they called her “Sunny Flower”), emerged to walk along the pavement on one side of Vinnytsia’s central Premehoy Square. Liza proudly pushing her own baby carriage on the way to the park. It was, in other words a typical, happy morning for Liza. Liza loved Ukrainian sunflowers, 🌻 sharing loads of smiles with everyone, and was very fond of music played on a violin.🎻
- She never made it home.
- The enemy fired three Kalibr cruise missiles from the “Krasnodar” submarine about 200 miles away in the Black Sea. Liza’s day ended in a flash of fire and metallic shrapnel from the strike, which resulted in the deaths of 27 civilians, including Liza and two other children. More than 70 were hospitalized, and 202 people sought medical assistance.
- A local newspaper spoke to a friend of Iryna – known as Ira- as she travelled to the hospital where she was being treated. “Liza died on the spot. I can’t say more. It’s too difficult.”
- Her mother survived the initial blast with serious injuries. What Iryna remembers, reliving the horror of that July morning in her first interview since leaving the hospital, is a deafening noise overhead that she thought was a plane. She looked up to see a “massive” missile and immediately crouched down to try to shield her child. “There wasn’t time to do anything,” Iryna told the Washington Post. ” It was over in a flash.”.
- In a dream Iryna had the day after the attack, she saw Liza in her white dress , surrounded by bright yellow smoke. She embraced her daughter, who then moved away. She tried to reach for Liza’s hand, but she couldn’t quite grasp it. “I asked Liza to take me with her,” Liza told her mother, “You have to live.”
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the Russian assault had hit two community facilities and a medical center, as well as houses and vehicles.
- Areas hit were, the wedding hall (a well known landmark), a building next door that was the site of a photography studio where a continual stream of children had their pictures taken for school albums, and a cultural center used by retired veterans.
- The area had not experienced significant attacks since early March.
- “What is this, if not an open act of terrorism?” President Zelenskyy said.
- Olena Zelenska, said she recognized the little girl from a Christmas video she made to celebrate the Holidays. “Liza, managed to paint not only herself, her Holiday dress , but also all the other children, me, the cameramen and the director with paints.” “Today we were horrified to see a photo of an overturned baby carriage from Vinnytsia. And then , reading the news, I realized that I knew this girl,” Zelenska said.
- The two young boys, whom were also killed in the brazen Russian attack on civilians were ages 7 and 13. Maksim Zharii, who was seven, died alongside his mother Viktoriia. I didn’t find the name of the second boy who was murdered.
- As of the 500th day of the intensification of genocide by Russia against Ukraine, over 500 children have been killed and over a thousand more have been maimed.
- Quote from the Defense Intelligence: “All Moscow slaughters, murderers of Ukrainian children, and all war criminals will be brought to justice by Ukraine. The day of reckoning will come – sooner or later, but inevitably.”.
- The Ukrainian army said in a Telegram post on July 19th 2022, that Stanislav Rzhitsky was in command of the submarine that carried out the deadly missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia.
- Rzhitsky, Capt. of the ” Krasnodar” submarine (which is still active in the RF BSF), was killed just four days prior to the one year mark of that cowardly terroristic attack.
- On July 10th 2023, in the Russian city of Krasnodar, Stanislav Rzhitsky, deputy head of the mobilisation department and former submarine commander, whom was involved in the missile strikes on Vinnytsia and other Ukrainian cities, was shot dead during a morning jog.
- On 11th of July 2023, The Investigative Committee of Russia reported about the detention of a man 64, on suspicion of involvement in the killing of Rzhitsky.
Your first article i guess. Congrats. How about a nice avatar?
Anyway this tragedy is heartbreaking.
Thanks, I’ve got a lot to learn, but really wanted to pay tribute to Liza and honor her life.
How do you add pictures to the body of stories or embed video?
We’ll have to write that down and post it some time.
Also, if I remember right, this is the 9th anniversary of the MH17 disaster in the Donbas when the rabid Moskali shot down a Malaysian airlines and of course blamed it on Ukraine.
If you use JetPack or WordPress on Android, there should be a + sign in the downe left corner of the text field. Just touch/click it and you can upload pictures or videos. If the video is YouTube, it is enough to post a link to the video, no need to download it, the app should ask you if you want to embed it. If you are on Windows or MacOs you need to ask Foccusser or Scradje. 😎
👍 Thanks
Beautiful!
I have no doubt that this actually happened as described, but I think more critical readers will probably claim it’s propaganda. Sadly, I think there’s always some group of people who refuse to believe the possibility that a war story may be exactly what it sounds like. At least Liza is in Heaven with God. I pray that her family will be able to move on to making new memories in their lives and to eventually see Liza again when God calls them home as good Christians.
I also wanted to share this, and perhaps you have already heard about it from other sources. The United States Congress has passed its annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), with funding for various conservative measures. One of the items considered, was by Republican majorie taylor greene, which if approved, would remove $300 million US dollars from financial assistance to Ukraine. Another was by Republican matt Gaetz, which if approved, would remove ALL security assistance to Ukraine. The Republicans overall, voted against greene and gaetz, meaning that the US Congress (including the Republican majority) approves of general/military assistance for Ukraine. The democrats were voting against this iteration of the NDAA, but it still passed. Next, it goes on to the US Senate, which if it fails approval there, then American defense spending along with assistance for Ukraine, will be voted against by the members of the US Democratic Party. If failed in the Senate, then the NDAA will probably go back to another voting count in the United States Congress.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-passes-military-spending-bill-with-conservative-amendments
“The Republicans overall, voted against greene and gaetz,”
Eighty-nine Republicans voted in favor of eliminating the Ukraine funding. No Democrats did so.
“The Democrats were voting against this iteration of the NDAA”
Democrats voted against the highly controversial amendments tacked on by the extreme radical right members of the GOP. But the Democrats were all in favor of the support for Ukraine.
It’s expected that the Senate will vote down the bill that includes those extremely unpopular radical right amendments. If the Senate and House manage to come to an agreement on a defense authorization bill, I’m sure that it will include funding for Ukraine.
I will admit that I wasn’t following on what the democrats were voting for. I would like to politely remind you though, that a Democrat “abstaining” on a vote doesn’t count as a “no” on this NDAA bill with Ukrainian assistance. So technically you’re right, the democrats may not have voted against it, and the funding still passes. Abstaining also means that the democrats didn’t vote “yes.”
“that a Democrat “abstaining” on a vote”
OK, it’s clear that you weren’t following this.
89 Republicans voted in favor of MTG’s amendment to cut financial assistance to Ukraine. No Democrats voted in favor of it.
130 Republicans voted against it, and 209 Democrats voted against it.
40% of Republicans in the House wanted to cut funding for Ukraine; no Democrats supported that.
Democrats support the NDAA in general, including support for Ukraine. It’s only because of all the radical right “poison pills” that got tacked on that Democrats can’t support the stinking turd that the House Republicans passed.
“American defense spending along with assistance for Ukraine” will not be voted against by the Senate. All those radical-right amendments from the crazies in the “Freedom Caucus” is what they’ll be voting against.
The bipartisan NDAA filed by the Senate Armed Services Committee “Extends the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) through fiscal year 2027 and authorizes the full budget request of $300 million in fiscal year 2024.”
Click to access fy2024_ndaa_executive_summary.pdf
(It’s a “bipartisan bill” because it was filed by both a Democrat and a Republican. It’s not a “Democratic bill” just because the Committee Chairman is a Democrat – some people here seem confused by American politics.)
The rabid, fascist crime syndicate must be destroyed for all the evil it’s responsible for. Its war criminals must be hounded to the end of the earth.
There’s a video of the memorial service included in this NY Times article, and pictures of little Liza in her coffin included in scradge1’s post a year ago.
https://ukrainetoday.org/2022/07/19/from-the-fb-page-support-ukraine/