One family has been left grieving after their little girl was shot dead by drunk Russian soldiers.
Anastasia Stoluk, 10, also known as Nastya, was killed in a village near Kyiv after Russian troops reportedly started shooting everywhere they could see after a Ukrainian boy fired a gun in the air.
Ukrainians have continued to flee their homes as the conflict escalates inside the country, with the Russian military slowly advancing towards the capital Kyiv.
The soldiers refused to allow Nastya’s mother, Luba, to go to the cemetery so she was buried Amid tears in the yard, her cousin Anya Stoluk, 18, said.
“People say that the soldiers just got so bored.
“They looted all the stores, of course, they got a lot of alcohol … and got drunk and started shooting.
They shot into Nastya’s house, she was there with her uncle, and she died immediately. Her uncle was taken to hospital and we still don’t have any information from him,” Anya’s adoptive mother Vera Dmitrienko told the reporters.
Dmitrienko said soldiers had started shooting after a Ukrainian teenage boy found a gun and fired it in the air.
She added: “The soldiers heard it but since they were so drunk they didn’t know where it was from so they just started shooting everywhere they could see.
“They shot in four houses and in one of those houses was Nastya.”
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