Funeral Honors Ukrainian Student Killed as She Helped the Victims of a Russian Strike
Hundreds joined the procession as mourners honored Vitalina Yarovenko, whose family requested a soldier-style farewell after she was killed helping strike victims.
- On Tuesday, hundreds of mourners processed through central Kyiv behind the open casket of 20-year-old Vitalina Yarovenko, a university student killed Saturday while volunteering as a medic at a Russian strike site.
- Yarovenko, a fourth-year psychology student at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, died when a second Russian missile struck the same location while she and other Hospitallers volunteers treated wounded civilians.
- Russia launched 220 aerial weapons across Ukraine that Saturday, including 35 missiles and 185 drones, killing at least nine people in Kyiv and wounding 33, underscoring critical shortages of Western-supplied Patriot interceptor missiles.
- Yarovenko's mother, Nataliia, laid her daughter to rest at a military cemetery—a distinction rarely granted to civilians—after a service where mourners wore white instead of black at the family's request.
- Friends Anastasiia Alieksieieva and Anna Donets noted Yarovenko had planned to enlist after university, while her mother urged Ukrainians to continue defending their land for future generations.
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Double-tap strike kills 20-year-old Hospitaller volunteer in Kyiv
On 1 August, 20-year-old fourth-year psychology student Vitalina Yarovenko was killed in a double-tap strike while helping victims in Kyiv. She was a volunteer paramedic with the Hospitallers medical volunteer battalion. After completing her training, she was preparing to officially join the battalion, said Nataliia Chykhachova, head of the Hospitallers' patronage service. Kyiv bid farewell to the volunteer on 4 August. Every day, Russia fires d…
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Funeral honors Ukrainian student killed as she helped the victims of a Russian strike
Hundreds of mourners dressed in white gathered in central Kyiv to honor 20-year-old Vitalina Yarovenko, a psychology student and volunteer medic killed by a Russian strike while helping people wounded in an attack.
In Kiev, they say goodbye to 20-year-old volunteer Vitalina Yarovenko (“Frau”), who died while rescuing people after a rocket attack.
In Kiev, 1 August, at the time of a Russian terrorist attack, Eva Reuter, a paramedic, died to the Gospitalleri battalion. The girl's life was over if she yelled the wounded at the end of the rocket attack.
Recently, a paramedic worked in the capital, traveling on calls with the units of the State Emergency Service during enemy air attacks
At the very moment when the Paramedics were gonna dopomagati rhytuwat the wounded, there's a second strike by the Russian Federation.
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