vira hyrych has an adult son left in the editorial office of radio svoboda, they said that they will always remember dedication to work and professionalism of our journalist vera, we are devastated by the loss of faith this night, obviously, we know that any journalist who works in ukraine takes a great risk, but who has lost faith, this is a huge blow for radio svoboda tim moreover, at that moment she was a widow in kyiv. she died during a senseless attack that caused harm to news civilians. the voice of america ukrainian service expresses its condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of the hyrych faith. the statement was also published in the leadership of the voice of america and usajm . and dedication to work and benevolence to all of our renewed commitment to unbiased coverage of news and information that led the leadership of the voice of america will recall from the beginning of the full-scale invasion russia has already killed at least 22 journalists and media persons in ukraine. see you in a few seconds . we will return and continue to tell more in our extended vers

correspondent: vira hyrych was carried from the wreckage of her home in a body bag. d been found buried beneath rubble after a russian missile strike on central kyiv. vira was 55, a journalist for the american broadcaster radio liberty. it says it is shocked and outraged by the meaningless manner of her death. we saw forensic workers bring out what looked like fragments of the missile. russia's defense ministry claims it was firinprecision weapons. only the military factory opposite the apartment block is scorched, but still standing. these two feel lucky to be alive today, even able to salvage something from the ruins. one said they just got home when they heard the first blast. if we had been in the lt a minute longer, he tells me, we'd been burnt or killed. russia may well have been aiming at a military facility across the road, but once again it is civilians who are the casuaies this strike. the mayor in kyiv says now 100 civilians have been killed in ukraine's capital alone in a war that russia began over two months ago and still shows no sign it wants to stop. d

russian missile hit a residential building in kyiv, killing journalist and employee of radio svoboda vira hyrych, she became the 23rd employee media, has life been cut short as a result of the russian invasion since february 24, my condolences to all relatives, all relatives and eternal memory to all victims of this war, today in the white hall of heroes of ukraine in the mariinsky palace, i presented awards to our defenders and members of the families of fallen soldiers of the order of the gold star were awarded to the heroes of ukraine lieutenant colonel serhiy burkovskyi captain vitaly horal senior lieutenant dmytro dozhorchii lieutenant colonel oleksandr zuhravy colonel dmytro kashchenko major oleksandr kukuruban captain oleg pasichnyk lieutenant colonel vyacheslav tsygankov, colonel of the medical service, oleksandr slysarenko, lieutenant colonel leonid khoda, colonel denys chayuk and lieutenant general serhii nayev, and three servicemen were awarded the order of the gold star posthumously. he had the honor of handing them over to the relatives of our heroes, sergeant volodymyr belyuk, mast

killed, and her mother was killed by a russian rocket, the journalist and producer of radio svoboda, vira hyrych, she was killed at the time of the shelling was in her house, where the rushees were aiming, this information from the press was confirmed by the editor-in-chief of the kyiv bureau, inna kuznetsova, faith's body lay under the rubble all night, rescuers discovered it in the morning, the woman worked for radio svoboda for four years, before that, on leading ukrainian tv channels, including espresso, our editors express condolences to the family of faith hyrych report from the place where the rashi rockets arrived yesterday from our colleague tetyana litvinova next kyiv shuddered again from the blows the russians fired in kyiv three rockets, one was shot down by air defense, one hit an infrastructure facility and another hit a residential building in the shevchenkivskyi district. this is how the consequences of a russian cruise missile hitting residential buildings look like. i will note that this building, which received the main impact, only a month after it was handed over to before t

denied that they kissed in a residential building, one person died, a journalist of radio svoboda, vira hyryche lived in the apartment building that was hit by the rocket, ten more people were injured, president zelenskyi accused russia of trying to humiliate the organization of the united nations and in a minute we will talk about the mood and situation in kyiv today with our own correspondent, but how the russian missile attack undermined the day of normalization of life in the ukrainian capital in the bbc story if the residents of kyiv thought that they were no longer threatened by russian attacks then how for two weeks the ukrainian capital was not shelled last night everything changed i got there in that side first i got there that side it was very loud i thought what specifically got somewhere in my office but in 10 seconds a friend flew in how many people were killed how many people were killed this is very difficult our brothers our brothers thank you all for the liberation they do not leave anything alive anywhere in russia they say their target was the production buildings of the ent

also killed, vira hyrych, a ukrainian journalist who worked for a u.s.-funded radio free europe. she was killed when russian missiles struck her apartment building during yesterday's air strike on the capital. and this just in. nato forces say they've scrambled jets multiple times over the past four days to track and intercept russian aircraft getting close to alliance airspace over the baltic sea and the black sea. today, president zelenskyy announced the discovery of another mass grave on the outskirts of keefe. zelenskyy said more than 900 bodies will of civilians have been found around mass graves inspect capital. charlie d'agata starts us off from eastern ukraine. good evening, charlie. >> reporter: good evening, norah. we have learned that willy cancel was killed on monday while fighting alongside ukrainian forces. it's unclear how and where he died. his family hopes his body will be found and returned back to the united states. he came to fight here and ended up giving his life, leaving behind their seven-month-old son. his widow brittney told cbs news today. >> he just wa

willem: among the remnants, rescue workers carried out the body of journalist vira hyrych.d for the u.s. funded broadcaster radifree europe/radio liberty. in irpin just to kyiv's northwest, drone video above block after block of devastation. once home to 62,000 residents, the former battlefield now a ghost town after russian forces withdrew in late march. those missiles in kyiv, judy, a reminder that strikes can still happen anywhere, anytime inside ukraine. but as our team has experienced firsthand over the past couple of days, by far the heaviest firepower is trained on the country's south and east. 2 urs drive southeast from here in dnipro, the town was rocked by dozens of explosions every hour. three hours due east of here we met ukrainian injured in an artillery strike who told us it was just one of 100 shells to darken the sky over his single unit. judy: willem marx in ukraine, we thank you. a reminder that the newshour's coverage of the war in ukraine is supported in partnership with the pulitzer center. with the war raging in eastern ukraine, there is a divide betwe

the body is believed to be that of vira hyrych, a producer with the ukrainian office of the radio liberty the war in ukraine and antonio guterres, the un chief himself, he said yesterday that at his own security council has failed to put an end to the war and also i think it shows what seems to be russia�*s disregard for external foreign pressure and a huge gap between what russia says and what we see on the ground and russia has not commented on the actual facts of the residential building being hit in kyiv. what the defence minister in moscow said was that they used a precision missile to attack a missile factory in kyiv, but the factory is across the street from the building that was hit and as far as we know windows were shattered there, but the actual buildings are not too badly damaged, so it�*s a residential high rose —— high—rise that got damaged resulting in the death of at least one person. i5 death of at least one person. is there a sense in ukraine that vladimir putin is looking at key international figures going to kyiv and seeing that that is a huge thing for ukraine, a mora