‘I want mum’: five-year-old girl loses parents and brother in Russian ambush outside Kyiv
Five-year-old Anastasiia Konchakovska wants to be held by her mother.
Lying in a hospital bed in Belarus, recovering from surgery to remove a bullet fragment from her skull last month, Konchakovska spoke one word repeatedly: “Mama.”
When she was told that her mother, Tetiana, was at work, the child said that couldn’t be true because “she came and laid down with me.”
Tetiana Konchakovska had been killed along with her husband and son on February 28, 2022, when their van was ambushed by invading Russian troops outside the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, according to Anastasia Mizetskaya, a relative who lives in the United States.
Anastasia Konchakovska survived the attack, as did her grandmother, Vasylyna Moshchenko. But the 5-year-old faces hard physical and emotional recovery and may have permanent damage to her right eye.
