Russia wipes out three generations of a family in one strike

Teddy Beers – big and small – gathered around the grave of Adam Bouhayouf as if he was keeping it.

But the 17 -month -old is not alone. His mother, Sofia Bouyuyouva, 27, was buried in the grave with him, in a dark and brutal cemetery in the southern city of Zaporesia, Ukraine.

Adam Greater Jeddah, Tetiana Taraasevych, 68, is located in the grave next to it.

The three were killed together on November 7 last year due to a Russian attack in a war that devoured Ukraine since 2022 – but it no longer dominates the international agenda.

Some of Adam’s recent moments were taken by Titiana in a video on her phone. The two were on a picnic with my mother Adam Sofia. Adam with blond hair, Adam with blue eyes wears a red anorak and a mystical hat, with the Mickey Mouse sticker on the front. “Do not take off your hat,” Titiana kindly told him, “You will be cold.” He does this anyway.

After an hour, the trio was at home, about to get a dining bite, when the Russian air bomb directed slices through the block of apartments. Adam, Soufia and Titiana, were killed with six other civilians.

Sofia’s mother, Yulia Tarasivic, 46, is now struggling to continue – without most members of her family, without her past and future.

It is slight, overwhelmed by a heavy black coat and sadness.

“I don’t know how to live,” she says. “He is hell on the ground. I lost my mother, my daughter and my grandson in one second.” The closest thing you can now reach in their graves.

“My dear mother,” she says, crying, and hitting a picture of Titiana – a doctor like her – linked to a wooden cross. One step turns it into the tomb of Sofia and Adam. She tends to touch his image, describing him “small hierarchy”.

Then you speak directly to a picture of Sofia – a black and white image of a young woman with long dark hair. “My beautiful daughter, crying,” I am sorry that I could not save you. “

Sofia’s father, Lochai, 60, will be a strong-year-old-a strong character shared by her loss and sorrow. “We are visiting the cemetery often, and we will live as long as we live, because it makes it easy for us,” says Yulia.

Every time they come, there are more graves that extend to the distance. Yulia says the cemetery is expanding “at an amazing pace.” Rows of blue and yellow flags, on the occasion of the graves of the fallen soldiers, penetrate the generous gray sky.

Zaporizhzhia, where the family lived, is a regular goal for Russian forces. It is an important industrial city strategically, near the fighting in the front line. The largest nuclear power plant in Europe – about 55 km (34 miles) from the city – retained by the Russians.

On the day of the attack that killed Sofia, Titiana and Adam, Yulia called her daughter from western Ukraine, where she was on a business trip.

I told her to be careful. The bombs were falling over the city since the morning. She said: “Thank you, mom, don’t worry. Everything will be fine with us. “

He was going to work when he heard something happened. He also called his daughter, but there was no response.

After that, on the WhatsApp collection for its local residents, he saw a message saying: “Friends, who are still remaining under the rubble?”

“I rushed to the house, I prayed all the way, but my prayers were already in vain,” he says.

“When I arrived, all I saw was rubble. I wandered in searching for my balcony. I don’t know how much time – two or three hours – realized that nothing remains, and there was no hope for saving.”

In the days after some properties were recovered from the rubble – a cup of China from Sofia, not in one way or another, Adam game plays in the bathroom, and the small red jacket he was wearing in his last career. These are now family treasures, along with many precious memories.

“Every evening when I went home from work, I was taking Adam on foot,” said Sirhi. “He was very curious about the sky. He was referring to his little finger, and we were telling him that. I love birds.”

Another family video shows Adam profit in the arms of Sofia, and it is picked from one side to another, then runs on the ground, surrounded by the bathroom. “He almost started talking, and he was always smiling. He was in good, beautiful and smart. He and my daughter made us happy every day,” says Yulia.

After Russia’s extensive invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Yulia Sophia took safety in the United Kingdom.

The young woman put her linguistic skills to use, and to work as a translator for the Ukrainian forces trained by the British army, but she could not get away from Ukraine.

“She missed her parents, relatives and the country,” says Yulia. Sofia returned and later gave birth to Adam in June 2023. She also addressed psychology because she “knew that many people in Ukraine need psychological help.”

In the midst of its sadness, Yulia knows that Ukraine may be pressured soon to negotiate with the enemy who stole it a lot.

President Trump has returned to the White House – all the weapons that burn – pushing for peace talks between Moscow and Kiev. But everyone and and will insist that Ukraine should fight. Donald Trump’s claim told me that he could end the war on the day he was “funny to hear.”

“Russia is the aggressor, he came to our country, and destroyed our homes and families,” says Yulia. “Therefore, there can be no talk about any ceasefire or peace conversations. If we leave this coding [Russian President Vladimir Putin] With our lands and do not detract from the people we lost, we will never win. “

Sirhi says that the only contact with the Russians on Ukrainian lands should be through fighting.

Many Ukrainians believe that even if there is a ceasefire, Russia will return to more or more – as happened in 2022, eight years after the inclusion of Crimea. Moscow now controls nearly five Ukraine.

Time is not to Ukraine. In 2025, there is a danger to many fronts – a lack of workforce, a possible reduction in future US military aid, and international attention fades.

Yulia accepts that life continues in other countries.

“People cannot live in constant pressure, and only think about us,” she says.

“However, I would like them to remember that there is a war that occurs nearly, as the soldiers not only die, but civilians die.”

She wants the world to know the names – Adam Bouhayouf, Sofia Bouhayuva, and Tariana Tarasivic.

Additional reports by Anastasia Levishenko, Volodimir Luzko, Goktai Cornan and Baitsk Burma