A young Ukrainian volunteer was shot and killed near Kyiv after delivering supplies to a dog shelter. Her friends say she was targeted at close-range by Russian troops.
Highlights
- Anastasiia Yalanskaya, a young volunteer in Ukraine, was shot and killed while delivering food to a dog shelter in Bucha, 30 kilometres outside Kyiv, on Friday.
- Friends and family say her car was deliberately targeted at close-range by Russian troops.
- Russian troops are increasingly killing civilians at random as a way to scare the population into submission, friends say.
- The U.N.
- Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine said it has recorded 752 civilian casualties in Ukraine.
- The next day, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said 2,000 civilians had been killed in the country’s capital Kyiv.