In the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, a US citizen was slain during an attack on citizens waiting in a bread line, according to his sister.
The US Embassy in Kyiv reported earlier Thursday that Russian soldiers fatally shot ten individuals in the incident, which Russia maintained was a fabrication. Cheryl Hill Gordon, James Whitney Hill's sister, claimed the State Department informed her of Hill's death in a brief phone chat. For the previous 25 years, Hill had lived in Ukraine and worked as a teacher.
Another US Citizen Was Killed During Russia Attacks
Gordon claimed he got romantically connected with Irina, a former pupil in her 40s diagnosed with multiple sclerosis roughly eight years ago. Hill discovered a hospital in Chernihiv "after two years of searching" with a doctor who "knew considerably more about MS than other doctors in the region," according to his sister.
Hill had to regularly return to the United States to meet Ukrainian visa requirements, and he had property near Yellowstone National Park in Idaho that his brother rented out as an Airbnb while he wasn't there, according to the New York Post.
After the assassination of journalist and filmmaker Brent Renaud last week, another civilian has been slain in the fighting. The State Department acknowledged to the Washington Examiner on Thursday that one of the fatalities was a US citizen but did not name the individual.
Hill had come to Ukraine in December for his wife, Irina, a Ukrainian citizen, to get life-extending multiple sclerosis medication. He was stranded inside a provincial hospital when the invasion began, with inadequate food, water, and electricity.
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Despite the difficulties in communicating with the outside world, Hill has managed to keep his Facebook page updated regularly. President Joe Biden declared in February that if Russia targeted and killed any Americans, it would pay a high price.
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized the invasion of Ukraine. Since then, he has faced fierce opposition from the international community, which has imposed harsh sanctions on him, his associates, and the oligarchs linked to him.
Around least ten individuals were killed when Russian forces opened fire on Ukrainian citizens queuing for bread at 10 am on Wednesday. According to Ukraine's emergency services, rescue personnel uncovered the corpses of five individuals, including three children, among the wreckage of demolished residential structures devastated by shelling.
Grieving Ukrainians were seen putting remains in sacks from a truck before dropping them into mass graves in Bucha, close outside Kyiv, in further terrible sights.
It happened after Vladimir Putin's army blasted a theater that was claimed to be housing up to 1,200 scared individuals, despite the term "children" being painted on the building's front. The Mariupol Drama Theater provided a haven for civilians escaping Russia's relentless bombing of the southern port city, with food being distributed and many staying overnight.
As the bombardments continue, an estimated 20,000 Ukrainians have left Mariupol, and more than 2,300 people have been murdered in the vicinity. Serhiy Orlov, the city's deputy mayor, estimated that between 1,000 and 1,200 people were inside the theater when the Russians attacked it on Wednesday, as per The Sun.
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