A young Ukrainian woman was shot and killed in her car by alleged Russian servicemen while returning from a food delivery to a local dog shelter outside the city. Kyiv.
Anastasia Yalanskaya, 26, was one of three volunteers on a dangerous hike to a local dog shelter in Bucha — 28 miles from Kyiv and close to Ipren, where many began evacuating — when Russian forces deliberately fired on her car on Thursday. with “heavy weaponry,” her family said.
her last Instagram The March 3 footage showed her sitting in the back seat of a car, surrounded by bags of dog food.
“We bought food for volunteer dogs who were left without the right food,” she wrote on Telegram on March 1.
Anastasia Yalanskaya was gunned down Thursday along with two other volunteers after delivering dog food to a local shelter in Bucha, Ukraine – 28 miles from Kyiv.
The animal lover was almost home when Russian forces targeted her car, used “heavy weapons” and shot through her car, killing all three.
Yalanskaya pictured with a group of men at an unknown time
It is not known if her car was shot at, but her friends and family believe Russian forces targeted more civilians. As of March 4, about 1,000 Ukrainian civilians have died after Vladimir Putin launched a war with a neighboring country.
Bucha has been targeted by Russian military operations for several days now, and the hideout where Yalanskaya was heading to has reportedly been without food for three days.
“I asked her to be especially careful,” ex-husband Yevgeny Yalansky told her. New York Post. “A mistake is very expensive, but it helped everyone around. I asked her to think about evacuation, but she didn’t listen.”
Her friend Anastasia Grishchenko, who had been evacuated to Vinnytsia, was in constant contact with Yalanskaya and contacted one of the other volunteers when she heard from her a few hours later. He told her that he found a car near the house of one of the volunteers, and they did not have time.
Her car was found near her home, riddled with bullets, and her body was taken to a nearby morgue.
“I asked her to be especially careful,” ex-husband Yevgeny Yalansky told her before the trip.
“I asked her to be especially careful,” ex-husband Yevgeny Yalansky told her before the trip.
“Not being able to help her on her last journey is very painful for me,” said her estranged husband from Sri Lanka. “She was one of the best people I knew. She was determined to help, to help her friends and family and anyone who needed help.
“She loved animals. We had a dog and a cat. She was the best partner I have ever had.”
Just a few days earlier, Yalanska had detailed her gruesome realities of war, writing on Telegram on February 24: “I wish us peace. I don’t know what to say anymore. We are chained to the news all day.
On February 27, she told her followers that she was “sleeping in a car in an underground parking lot” to avoid bombs in the area. She still seemed hopeful as she wrote, “They will agree anyway. Sooner or later. Please let it be early, not late.”
On February 28, for the first time since the beginning of the war, she went outside and said that she “won’t forget this feeling.”
“I never considered myself a big fan of the Armed Forces of Ukraine or a patriot. Today, after talking several times with the guys who are at the checkpoints, I realized how cool they are,” she continued. “For the first time in my life, I was proud of the country in which I live, and the people who are nearby. It’s unfortunate that it happened in such conditions.”
On March 1, a kind-hearted Ukrainian visited a kindergarten class in Brovary “where about 40 children were left without food and support items such as diapers and wipes.”
On March 3, she shared her memorable experience of traveling by car to help others. She detailed how she had to “drive with the window ajar to hear from which side and with what intensity the shelling was coming,” and that “nausea from fear is not a myth.”
“Blown up bridges and roads are terrible, houses destroyed by rockets are monstrous,” she wrote. “If there is a sign [that says] “don’t slow down” – you have to obey. And then move [on] on the Zhytomyr highway, an explosion of some unknown debris is heard right next to the wheels.
She documented her experience of the war on Telegram. In a letter the day before her death, she described in detail the attempt to get to Irpin, but could not because of the blown up bridge. She said: “Tomorrow we will try to go the other way.”
‘ [farther into the] the hot spot where you are heading, the more you will be dissuaded at roadblocks. But when they see the determination in their eyes, they will wish for strength, thank you and ask you to be careful.”
She continued: “In the evening, at the entrance to the checkpoint, we turn off the headlights, turn on the lights in the cabin and the emergency gang, lower the windows, take out the documents, keep our hands on the steering wheel, and tell them where and from where we are going.
“If this is not done, then instead of the employee’s smile, you will see only the muzzle of the machine gun that was pointed at you in advance.”
The day before her death, she spoke in detail about her unsuccessful trip to Irpin and about how the bridge was “blown up”.
Tomorrow we will try to go the other way. She died the next day.