What is known about family with 8-months-old daughter killed in Russian missile attack on Zaporizhzhia
On 2 March, a Russian missile attack on a five-storey building in the city of Zaporizhzhia killed Kamila and Illia Furnyk, along with their eight-month-old daughter Emiliia.
Kamila's parents and little Emiliia's godmother waited for two days for news from rescuers at the entrance, hoping that the young woman, her husband and child would be found alive.
The bodies of the couple and the child were taken out of the rubble by rescue workers. The relatives of the victims did not want to believe that the young family was gone until the last moment.
"Pain, just pain, they ruthlessly tore out my heart, broke and crippled my soul... A thousand words ‘why’? I waited for two days at the entrance, prayed and believed that you would be found alive, why? Eternal memory and a wound for life... Rest peacefully, my little girl with a forever smiling face, I'm sorry that you were not saved," Anna, Emiliia’s godmother, wrote.
The apartment where the family used to live was completely destroyed.
According to the public organisation Khortytska Varta, at the beginning of the war, the Furnyk family left their occupied home village of Verbove, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. The couple lived for some time in western Ukraine. The Furnyk family came back to Zaporizhzhia a few days before the tragedy.
On the night of 2 March, the Russian occupiers conducted an airstrike on Zaporizhzhia, which resulted in damage to a residential building. As of now, 13 residents of the building have been reported killed.
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