UKRAINE, KHARKIV, Sep 4 — Russia launched a glide bomb attack on Kharkiv, killing at least seven, including a 14-year-old girl, and injuring 90 people in Kharkiv. An 18-year-old artist, Nika Kozhushko, was among the dead, and today, Gwara Media went to a farewell ceremony held for her.
In total, since the beginning of the full-scale war, the Russian army has killed over 100 Ukrainian artists, according to the writer’s association PEN Ukraine.
“Since my child was a creative person, I ask you to give her a round of applause and remember my daughter,” said Ihor Kozhushko, Nika’s father; he never knew Nika wrote poems and prose. Now as she’s gone, he cannot look at them.
Relatives, friends, and employees of the Literature Museum, where Nika volunteered, also came to honor Kozhushko.
“She was not only my daughter, but also my friend. Unfortunately, I began to know a lot about her only after her death,” Nika’s father added, barely holding back tears.
Relatives, friends, and employees of the Literature Museum, where Nika volunteered, also came to honor Kozhushko.
“Nika asked me to make a bracelet for her. I have. But I will never be able to make her happy again,” said one of Nika’s friends.
“She was a very bright, young, cheerful person. I am very sorry that Nika died so early and so unfairly,” said Vladyslava, a museum staff member. “This is a huge loss for Kharkiv and the country as a whole because Nika did so much for the city’s cultural life.”
Photo credits: Mourns for Nika / Photo: Ivan Samoilov, Gwara Media
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- At night, the Russian army launched a combined attack on Kharkiv with drones and North Korean missiles, injuring a 66-year-old woman, reported the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
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