“Kira, the 12-year-old daughter of Ukrainian water polo champion Yevgen Obedinsky, who was killed in Mariupol, has successfully reunited with her grandparents in Kiev,” Mariupol officials said. In March, the Russians took the wounded girl to Donetsk.
The Mariupol City Council says 12-year-old Kra Obadinska, who was abducted by Mariupol occupants, has been handed over to her grandfather.
As the girl said, Was able to move out of Donetsk and is currently staying with his grandfather in Kiev. This was reported by the girl’s grandmother Suspilne on the portal.
On March 17, Yevgen Obedinsky was killed in a Russian attack in Mariupol. As Suspline writes, The Russians took the little girl to the donuts – She was wounded while trying to get out of the besieged city. With stab wounds, he was taken to a hospital in Donetsk. Relatives did not know where he stayed until April 26.
On March 31, the attorney general’s office in Chernivtsi announced that it would begin work on the abduction.
Mariupol has been besieged by Russian troops since the beginning of March. The city is constantly on fire and bombing. The situation of the residents is dire; Conservative estimates put the death toll at more than 20,000. People.
About 1,000 civilians may still be hiding in the elaborate underground corridors and shelters on the site of the Azovstall metallurgical plant – The last point of Ukrainian security in Mariupol where the Azov National Guard Regiment and the 36th Independent Navy are fighting. On April 19, Azov’s deputy commander Svyadoslav Palmer announced that Russian troops had dropped heavy airstrikes on the factory and had “almost completely destroyed it.” Attempts by the Ukrainian side to evacuate civilians from Azovstal over the past two days have yet to bear fruit.
The capture of Mariupol will help create a groundbreaking corridor for Russia-occupied Crimea and will have great campaign significance. Capturing the city would allow the Kremlin to unleash significant forces on a wider offensive in other parts of the Donbass.