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Olha Shykuła lost her husband and three children as a result of a Russian strike on a residential building in Bohodukhiv, Kharkiv region. She entrusted her family’s story to the Museum of the Voices of the Peaceful, according to the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation website.
10 February 2026, a Russian unmanned aerial vehicle struck a residential building in Bohodukhiv, Kharkiv region, the post on the website says. Killed were 34-year-old defender Hryhoriy Shykuła and his three children — two-year-old twins Vladyk and Vanya and one-year-old daughter Mira. His wife Olha, who was pregnant at the time, and her unborn daughter Kateryna survived.
On the eve, Hryhoriy was playing with the children, after which they fell asleep in the same bedroom. Olha, who was pregnant, went to sleep in another room so as not to wake the family. At night, a drone hit the house.
“It is very scary when you lose your relatives, and when they die in such a way. This is not death, this is brutality. That my children burned and my husband died, I do not want to forgive anyone,” Olha says.
After the strike, the pregnant woman felt unwell, the story says. Over the shock, she lost her voice and feared for the life of her unborn child. In the hospital Olha learned about the death of her husband and children and the loss of the house.
Soon she gave birth to a daughter Kateryna. The name for the sister had already been chosen during life by Vladyk, who stroked his mom’s belly and called the future sister Katia.
After the tragedy Olha was left alone with the infant. Later she was provided housing. According to the woman, the decision to have a fourth child during the war was not easy, but Kateryna became a reason for her to continue living.
“I want to go forward, I want to live for the sake of the child. The future is that she has a decent education, a decent life. Here one can tell about the children as they were, and about the husband as he was. He was a hero to me. And Kateryna should certainly become a hero for him as well. So we must hold on and continue living,” the woman said.
The story of Olha Shykula and her family was published on the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation website.
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