Knockin' On Heaven's Door

Russia is a terrorist state that intentionally targets civilians to inflict maximum psychological trauma. This is a sad reminder of the basic cost of Putin's war. Ukrainians are paying for it with their blood. No other country is paying anything.

Source: Reuters

LVIV, Ukraine, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Hundreds of residents of Lviv packed into a church on Friday to mourn three sisters and their mother, killed in a Russian strike that hit their home in the western Ukrainian city many hundreds of miles from the front line.

Seven civilians were killed and more than 50 wounded in Wednesday's drone and missile strike that hit a residential area of Lviv. Among the dead were Yevheniia Bazylevych, 43, and her three daughters Yaryna, 21, Dariia, 18, and Emilia, 7.

A choir sang as mourners carried the coffins in a procession to the church. Many in the crowd held sunflowers; some wore traditional Ukrainian shirts.

The sisters' father, Yaroslav Bazylevych, 48, wept and hugged well-wishers beside the open white coffins of his three daughters and his wife, his face covered with cuts and bruises sustained during the attack.

“I’ve never met such people in my life," said Oleksandra Petryuk, a close friend of one of the older sisters, clutching a bouquet of chrysanthemums and fighting back tears outside the church.

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