Today, May 16, Kyiv said goodbye to 24-year-old Maryna Homeniuk, who died as a result of a combined attack on Kyiv on the night of May 14. The girl and her boyfriend were found under the rubble of a destroyed high-rise building in the Darnytskyi district, where a Russian ballistic missile hit and claimed the lives of 24 people.
Correspondents from Suspilny attended the farewell.
“Bright and bright, with a big heart and love of life,” is how her friend and colleague Alina Chornobay remembers Maryna Homeniuk.
“Marina lived here and now, was caring, loved her country very much, organized training sessions for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and now she has not had time to close her next training session,” Alina said.
According to her, on the night of May 14, when the Russian shelling began, they were texting on social media. Marina was hiding in the bathroom and saying that the house was shaking badly.
“I saw that she was writing me voice messages, but she didn't send them. I also thought, why is that? But I couldn't even assume it at the time, realize it. I fell asleep, and in the morning my colleagues wrote to me that there had been a flight to the house where Marina lived. I went to her place, because I lived nearby, and saw that there was no entrance,” the girl recalls.
Maryna Homeniuk worked as an English teacher at Helen Doron English.
Family, friends, colleagues, and her students came to say goodbye.
Farewell to Maryna Homeniuk, who died as a result of a massive combined attack on Kyiv on the night of May 14. Social News/Snizhana Mazur
Marina's colleagues told the public that she was inspired by her work, was a polyglot, loved to learn languages, travel. And she also loved animals. “She had a white blind cat that she adopted from a shelter, as well as a dog.”
Maryna Homeniuk with her boyfriend Yuri Orlov. Helen Doron English/Facebook
Marina was killed along with her boyfriend, 30-year-old Yuriy Orlov. He was a floorball player who once played for the capital's hockey clubs “Kryzhynka-Companion” and “Generals”. A farewell to Yuriy will take place tomorrow.
On May 15, rescuers completed emergency recovery work at the site of the Russian strike on the high-rise building. The attack on the night of May 14 destroyed the entrance from the 9th to the 1st floors. 24 people died, including three underage girls.
People carry flowers and toys to the destroyed nine-story building.
President Volodymyr Zelensky, together with Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko and Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko, yesterday, May 15, honored the memory of those killed near a nine-story building in Kyiv.
Foreign delegations also visited the site of the Russian missile strike in the Darnytsia district of Kyiv. In particular, from Poland, France, Great Britain, Japan, and Brazil – a total of more than 60 foreign diplomats and heads of international organizations.