Ukrainian retrieves the body of his daughter and wife injured from an apartment destroyed in a Russian raid

A Ukrainian man rushed to his home in a suburb of the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro to help rescuers pull the body of his two-year-old daughter from the rubble of their apartment destroyed in one of Russia's latest raids on Ukraine, authorities said Sunday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who wrote via Telegram shortly after Lisa's body was recovered, said at least 500 Ukrainian children have been killed since Russia launched its war on February 24, 2022.

Zelensky, who celebrated Universal Children's Day on Thursday, said Russian weapons and hatred continue to kill and destroy the lives of Ukrainian children every day, adding that many of them could have become famous scientists, artists and sports heroes, contributing to writing Ukraine's history.

Lisa died when a Russian rocket landed on Saturday evening in a yard next to her apartment building while she was with her mother at home, Dnipropetrovsk governor Serhiy Lysak said. And the girl's father rushed home from work.

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Verishuk said in a report on the rescue operation that lasted until early Sunday the father was at work and, as I was told, personally cleared the rubble and recovered his wife and daughter. Imagine the magnitude of this tragedy. The girl's mother was taken to the hospital's intensive care unit.

Lesak said five children were among 22 people injured in Saturday's attack that destroyed two apartment buildings.

One of the children's mother sat amid piles of broken concrete, twisted metal, toys and clothes near her apartment building and described what had happened.
Alyona Serdnyak says: I was running from the electric station between cars. I was running home. My child was alone at home. We tried to pull my child out from under the cage on the window.

She said they managed to free him and he is now in hospital in intensive care.