by Redazione Sport
The little girl who died with her father when their house collapsed. Serious little brother and mother. The judge: “She won’t even be buried, do you believe that in the 21st century?”
A young Ukrainian gymnast, just 11 years old, “died under the rubble in Mariupol”. Her name was Kateryna Dyachenko. This was announced by his trainer Anastasia Meshchanenkova and the city council of the port city besieged by Russian forces.
It was a bomb attack on Tuesday that killed her home in Mariupol, according to Ukrainian news site Hromadske. The father also died in the attack, while the mother and brother were miraculously saved, although the latter was badly injured. But the two cannot be evacuated from the battered city and are trapped along with thousands of other people.
Dyachenko dreamed of becoming a world famous rhythmic gymnast and representing Ukraine at the Olympics. In a story on Instagram, the coach posts a photo with her from December, when the war was still far away and Kateryna could still dream, and comments: “I didn’t think something like this could happen in the 21st century. This wonderful young gymnast died in Mariupol. It’s unfair when innocent children die. I have no words, only pain ». In the photo, both are looking to the future, to more medals to be won.
«Katya had many dreams and a fantastic life ahead of her commented a rhythmic gymnastics judge Lidia Vynogradna, who was at the Lviv (Lviv) competition but she will never be able to perform again. She is dead. She only died because she was on the way of the Russian army that wants to reduce this heroic city of Mariupol to rubble, the referee wrote in a lengthy post on Instagram. «She won’t even be buried he continues nobody will be able to visit her in the cemetery. In my mind there is only an image of a little girl locked in a plastic bag and buried in the garden. This is the only way people can be buried today. Is all this really conceivable in the 21st century?
In Mariupol, the city has been bombed almost continuously since the first day of the Russian military invasion. Electricity, water, food and heating have all been cut off due to the ongoing bombing raids that have trapped at least 100,000 people.
March 23, 2022 (Modified March 23, 2022 | 10:56 PM)
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