Nataliia Khodemchuk, 73, has died in hospital of accidents sustained on account of Russia's assault on Kyiv on the night time of 13-14 November. Nataliia was the widow of Valerii Khodemchuk, the primary sufferer of the 1986 catastrophe on the Chornobyl Nuclear Energy Plant.
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Particulars: Nataliia died in a Kyiv hospital, the place medics had battled to save lots of her life.
Nataliia's husband, Valerii Khodemchuk, was the primary particular person to die within the Chornobyl accident in 1986. Journalist Tamara Khrushch mentioned that his physique nonetheless stays trapped beneath the ruins of Reactor 4.
After the tragedy, Nataliia moved from the town of Prypiat to Kyiv and lived within the Troieshchyna district.
Quote from Tamara Khrushch: "On Chornobyl remembrance days, Nataliia would journey with different widows to Mitinskoye Cemetery in Moscow, the place the primary 30 Chornobyl employees who had been fatally uncovered to radiation are buried. One 12 months I used to be there with them; I got here again with a tv movie and, in my coronary heart, the deep grief and ache felt by these individuals who had misplaced their family members.
Moscow's celebrated drugs didn’t save them. I say this not out of anger or the ache stirred up by at present's lethal warfare, however as a matter of fact. One other group of Chornobyl energy engineers who obtained extraordinarily excessive doses of radiation recovered and had the nice fortune to stay on; they had been handled in Kyiv by Professor Kindzelskyi."
Extra particulars: In Kyiv, Nataliia lived in a residential constructing the place a number of the flats had been allotted to first responders and family of those that died on account of the Chornobyl catastrophe. Referred to as "liquidators", the primary responders had been civil and army personnel referred to as in to take care of the fast and long-term aftermath of the nuclear catastrophe at nice private danger.
One other resident of the constructing is Oleksii Ananenko, a former Chornobyl mechanical engineer and Hero of Ukraine who was one of many three volunteers who risked their lives to avert a second attainable explosion on the plant.
The residential constructing was hit by a drone throughout Russia's large-scale assault on the night time of 13-14 November. Nataliia's condo was "burnt to the bottom", Khrushch mentioned. Nataliia suffered burns to over 45% of her physique and was taken to hospital, the place she later died.
Background: Newest studies point out that seven individuals had been killed within the Russian assault on Kyiv, together with Svitlana Vashchenko, a kindergarten trainer.
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