A 10-year-old Ukrainian girl was shot dead by “bored” Russian troops who drunkenly fired a volley of shots at random, according to her family.
Anastasia Stoluk, known as Nastya, was killed after the invading troops shot into her house in Shybene, about 40 miles north of Kyiv, her cousin Anya Stoluk, 18, told the Times of London.
Nastya was killed immediately and an uncle who was with her was also hit and hospitalized, but the family has been unable to get info on his condition, according to Anya’s adoptive mother, Vera Dmitrienko.
“People say that the soldiers just got so bored. They were even telling this to people in the village,” Dmitrienko, 40, told the UK paper.
“They looted all the stores in the village, of course they got a lot of alcohol from the stores and got drunk and started shooting,” she said.
The deadly shot on Feb. 28 may have been sparked by a local teenage boy finding a gun and firing it into the air, Dmitrienko said.
“The soldiers heard it but since they were so drunk, they didn’t know where it was from, so they just started shooting everywhere they could see. They shot in four houses and in one of those houses was Nastya.”
Russian soldiers shot dead 10-year-old Anastasia Stoluk in a village near Kyiv after they got drunk, heard a gun go off and began firing at random. Family Handout
A house damaged after being struck by Russian forces in Sumy, Ukraine, on March 7, 2022. STATE EMERGENCY SERVICES OF UKRA
A Ukrainian police officer runs while holding a child as artillery echoes nearby, while fleeing Irpin on the outskirts of Kyiv on March 7, 2022. AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti
According to the family, Ukraine soldiers refused to let the family bury the child in the cemetery. LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP via Getty Images
A child looks out a window of a bus after crossing the border from Ukraine to Poland with people fleeing the Russian invasion. REUTERS/Fabrizio BenschThe soldiers refused to allow Nastya’s mother, Luba, to go to the cemetery — so she was buried in the yard, the cousin claimed.
The family also accused Russia of hiring actors to make a propaganda film suggesting that villagers had warmly welcomed troops into their homes as if they were saviors.
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A severely injured child being removed from a bombed-out civilian building in the city of Sumy, Ukraine. Parliament of Ukraine
A woman with two children waits for an evacuation train on March 7, 2022. Dmytro Smoliyenko/Ukrinform/NurPInstead, they claim that the invaders have been forcing their way into homes to steal supplies in the village where there is already scant food or electricity.
