Ukrainians grieve for an 11-year-old girl killed by a Russian missile

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'Why did this happen to me? I didn't do anything bad to them.' Those are the words a neighbor recalled an 11-year-old Ukrainian girl saying in her final moments after she was struck by a Russian missile.

Andriy and Iryna Grycenko mourn the death of their 11-year-old daughter, Anastasiya, at her funeral in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Sept. 20. Anastasiya was killed on Sept. 17 when a Russian S-300 missile obliterated her home in Chuhuiv. At right is Iryna's sister, Anastasiya's aunt, Rimma Leiba.Andriy and Iryna Grycenko mourn the death of their 11-year-old daughter, Anastasiya, at her funeral in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Sept. 20. Anastasiya was killed on Sept.

A crater and field of debris are all that remain on Sept. 24 at the site of an explosion that killed 11-year-old Anastasiya Grycenko in Chuhuiv, Ukraine."This is where she was lying," says neighbor Mychailo Kantemyriv, who found Nasta after the missile struck. He says she was still alive and conscious, lying next to the crater where the house had once stood.

Every day, local officials in Ukraine announce grim statistics about the war. This number of people were injured. That number of people died.in the more than seven months of war — hundreds of them children — but say they believe the actual civilian death toll is much higher.Iryna and Andriy Grycenko mourn the death of their 11-year-old daughter, Anastasiya, at her funeral in Kharkiv on Sept. 20. At left is Iryna's sister, Anastasiya's aunt, Rimma Leiba.

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