{"id":5751,"date":"2025-04-29T00:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T00:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/kyiv-teenagers-mourn-their-friend-killed-by-russian-missile-photos\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T00:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T00:03:14","slug":"kyiv-teenagers-mourn-their-friend-killed-by-russian-missile-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/kyiv-teenagers-mourn-their-friend-killed-by-russian-missile-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyiv teenagers mourn their friend killed by Russian missile (PHOTOS)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Kyiv<\/p>\n

On a sunny but chilly Monday, after class had already started in Kyiv schools, scores of grim-faced teens filled a crematorium hall at Kyiv’s main cemetery instead.<\/p>\n

They had come to say goodbye to their friend and classmate Danylo Khudia, a 17-year-old whose coffin stood next to those of his parents, Viktoriia and Oleh, around the fire pit where their bodies would be cremated after the farewell ceremony<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The Khudia family was asleep at home when a Russian missile struck their apartment<\/a> building on April 24, killing 13 people<\/a> in Russia\u2019s deadliest attack on Ukraine’s capital in almost a year.<\/p>\n

Danylo\u2019s younger sister, 14-year-old Yana, was the only person in the family who survived<\/a> the strike. A video of her dusty, expressionless face gazing out from the wreckage, while first responders struggled to lift the concrete slabs and pleaded, \u201cHold on, Yanochka, we\u2019ll surely get you out,\u201d went viral online.<\/p>\n

Yana couldn\u2019t come to the funeral of her parents and brother on April 28 due to her injuries. Her two surviving older siblings, a brother and sister in their early 20s, stood in the front row, opposite a teenage girl with long brown hair \u2013 Danylo\u2019s girlfriend, whose mother had to hold her up with an arm around her waist as she approached the caskets.<\/p>\n

\u201cDanylo was the brightest person I had known in my eighteen years,\u201d said one young man when everyone was invited to say something about the family.<\/p>\n

When short speeches were said between the towering crematorium walls and the priest had finished the rites, hundreds of people slowly flowed past the coffins, leaving flowers and speaking to the dead one last time. <\/p>\n

One soldier put scarlet red carnations on Oleh\u2019s casket, who was also a soldier<\/a> and had been recovering from a battle wound at home. <\/p>\n

Young boys whose chins had little more than peach fuzz came up to Danylo\u2019s casket to place flowers, as Danylo\u2019s grandmother in a wheelchair cried out next to them: \u201cDania, Dania! Why?\u201d<\/p>\n

For most of the ceremony, Danylo\u2019s closest male friends looked stoic, standing in a close-knit group behind his surviving relatives.<\/p>\n

But when Danylo\u2019s casket was lowered inside the fire pit, following the caskets of his parents, many young men covered their faces, biting back tears and clutching each other\u2019s shoulders.<\/p>\n

After the strike<\/a>, Danylo\u2019s friends had stayed behind the red tape cordoning off the wreckage for the whole day, hoping he’d be found alive. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe were recording videos: \u2018C\u2019mon, Dania, we\u2019re waiting for you!\u2019 Or writing to him,\u201d said Varvara Shustova, 15, a member of Danylo\u2019s friend group. \u201cNo one believed that he had died at first.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t ever believe that it could happen to us. To Dania. That all of us will be going through this together,\u201d she told the Kyiv Independent after the funeral.<\/p>\n

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Relatives and friends mourn during the funeral ceremony for the Khudia family on April 28, 2025. (Tetiana Dzhafarova \/ AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Teenagers pay their final respects to 17-year-old Danylo Khudia, his father Oleh, and mother Viktoriia, killed in a Russian missile strike days earlier in Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 28, 2025. (Anna Donets \/ The Kyiv Independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A girl cries over the loss of her boyfriend Danylo Khudia, 17, who was killed with his parents in a Russian missile attack on a residential area in Kyiv, Ukraine. April 28, 2025. (Anna Donets \/ The Kyiv Independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A priest reads the final rites during the family’s funeral in Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 28, 2025. (Tetiana Dzhafarova \/ AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Relatives and friends mourn during the family’s funeral ceremony in Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 28, 2025. (Tetiana Dzhafarova \/ AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A priest blesses the coffins of Danylo Khudia, 17, his father Oleh, and his mother Viktoriia, who were killed in a Russian missile attack on a residential area in Kyiv, Ukraine. April 28, 2025. (Anna Donets \/ The Kyiv Independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Friends gather to say goodbye to Danylo in a Kyiv creamtorium on April 28, 2025. (Anna Donets \/ The Kyiv Independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Teenagers come together to honor Danylo Khudya, 17, and his parents Oleh and Viktoriia, victims of a Russian missile strike in a Kyiv neighborhood on April 28, 2025. (Anna Donets \/ The Kyiv Independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Danylo’s teenage friends looked stoic during most of the funeral of him and his parents in Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 28, 2025. (Anna Donets \/ The Kyiv Independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Memorializing Ukraine\u2019s fallen soldiers: One asked to be cremated so future fighters don\u2019t \u2018dig trenches in our bones\u2019<\/div>\n
Editor\u2019s Note: The following is the first in a series of reports by the Kyiv Independent about the memorialization of Ukraine\u2019s fallen soldiers. \u201cI\u2019m up for cremation,\u201d Kostiantyn \u201cKostia\u201d Yuzviuk wrote in a list of funeral requests in his newly created Telegram channel for friends in November 2022<\/div>\n
\"KyivThe Kyiv Independent<\/span>Natalia Yermak<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\"Kyiv<\/div>\n

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– https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/ukraine\/rss\/<\/p>\n

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