"They thought it was calmer in the village, they just moved" - neighbours about the dead family with the baby

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Rescuers in Kievshchyna carry out the body of a dead man
STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE
14:45, 22.10.2025

Today, 22 October, a whole family - a mother, her 6-month-old daughter and 12-year-old niece - died in the village of Pogreby in Kyivshchyna.



A woman and her children moved from Kiev to the village, thinking that it would be calmer here.

The head of the Kiev regional military administration, Mykola Kalashnik, has said that a young woman and two children were killed in the village of PogrebyBrovarskyi district of Kiev Region as a result of a Russian attack, Radio Liberty has reported.

The terrorist country killed a young woman born in 1987, a six-month-old baby and a twelve-year-old girl in the village of Pogreby in Brovary district. Their bodies were found at the scene of a fire in a private house, - stated in the message.

Later, the head of the Kyiv OVA also reported the death of a young man:

Unfortunately, the terrorist country took another life. In Brovary district, a man born in 1987 was fatally wounded by shrapnel.

The publication communicated with fellow villagers of the victims.

There directly hit the house, the fire started ... I ran there, I was called, - said a local resident of the village of Pogreby in Kiev region in a comment to Radio Liberty about the night attack and an attempt to help the victims.

Antonina Zaichenko, born in 1987, her daughter Adelina, who was six months old, and her 12-year-old niece Anastasia were killed in the house, the village head of Zazimsky village council specified.

Another neighbour, Vasyl, said that the family moved there from Kiev because they thought it would be calmer in the village.

They started living here. Here, they say, it is calmer. But it didn't happen as they thought, - Vasyl shared.

As Socialportal wrote, on 22 October, Russia carried out a massive attack on Ukraine - at night and in the morning. In the crosshairs of the aggressor was Kiev, Kiev region, Zaporozhye, Kharkiv and many other regions.

In the capital it is known about 6 dead, among them 2 children. There are 25 people injured in the capital alone. Many neighbourhoods were affected - residential buildings, hospital, rescuers took people out, extinguished fires.

As a result of the massive Russian strike, there is no electricity in many regions of Ukraine. In Kiev, there is a partial lack of water in a number of districts.

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Albina Trubenkova
Contributing journalist at SOCPORTAL.INFO

Journalist, publicist, and expert on European integration and Ukrainian-Polish dialogue. Author for several Polish media outlets, including the weekly Polityka, the online platform Oko.press, and others.

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