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Widow of Chernobyl’s First Victim Dies After Russian Strike on Kyiv Apartment Block

Officials confirmed she died of severe burns from a Shahed that struck a block housing families of Chernobyl liquidators.

Overview

  • The State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management said Nataliia Khodymchuk, 73, died overnight on November 14–15 after injuries from the November 13–14 attack.
  • Authorities reported seven fatalities in Kyiv and about 35 injured in the barrage, and emergency operations at the Desnianskyi district site have concluded.
  • The drone hit an apartment building in Troieshchyna long allocated to former Chernobyl workers and their relatives, tying the strike to a community shaped by the 1986 disaster.
  • Khodymchuk suffered burns over roughly 45% of her body and her apartment was destroyed by fire, according to the agency.
  • Other residents were affected, including engineer Oleksii Ananenko, whose smoke-blackened flat forced his wife to pull him to safety, during a wider assault that used hundreds of drones and multiple missiles across several regions.