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'Destroyed a whole family': Kyiv teens mourn friend killed in Russian strike

Relatives and friends mourn at the coffins during the funeral ceremony of 17-year-old Danylo Khudia and his parents Oleg and Viktoriia, killed four days prior by a missile strike, in Kyiv, on April 28, 2025. [AFP]

At Kyiv's towering crematorium, baby-faced teenagers wept over the coffin of their friend, a 17-year-old killed with his parents by a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian capital last week.

Danylo Khudia, his mother Viktoria and his father Oleg were among 12 people killed when a ballistic missile ripped into a Kyiv residential area at dawn.

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