who was killed at close range with 2 others in a car yesterday while delivering dog food to a shelter in need:



The 26-year-old Ukrainian woman was delivering food to a dog shelter in Bucha, 30 kilometres outside Kyiv, on Friday when she was shot and killed alongside two men she had been volunteering with.

Yalanskaya’s friends and family say her car was deliberately targeted at close-range by Russian troops. Global News has been unable to confirm the circumstances of her death.

Friends do not know why she was targeted, but believe Russian troops are increasingly killing civilians at random as a way to scare the population into submission.

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Yalanskaya, a job recruiter, had been keeping a daily blog on Telegram to inform her friends and family of her surroundings as she delivered aid around the region.

On Saturday, February 26, she wrote on the channel in Russian, after having spent the night sleeping in a parking garage due to bombing fears: “Now I realize even better how important it is to be able to just see the loved ones whenever you want.”

“We will all be together soon, safe and at peace. I believe in it.”

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On Tuesday, she wrote about helping a kindergarten in Brovary, just outside Kyiv, where 40 children were without food and diapers, as well as bringing aid to a military hospital and bringing food for volunteer dogs.

“We are not scared. We are united like never before. We help each other. We stand for hours at roadblocks and thank those who protect us,” she wrote. “We will win.”

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“She was a very good person, she was always helping everyone, she wouldn’t do anything else.”

Hryshchenko says civilians are now increasingly being targeted, especially around Kyiv.

“They’re just randomly shooting people. They see civilians and they just shoot them,” she says.

“They want people to be scared and horrified. But it only makes our people braver.”

Valeriia Gorska, a former colleague and friend, said “the world should know that she’s a hero.”

“She was helping people. She believed in people.

“I knew her three years ago, and I knew her now, and I saw a change in her recently. She was so strong. And she was never prouder to be Ukrainian.”