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Ukrainian boy who celebrated 4th birthday found dead fleeing Russian attack
The last photo taken of Sasha Zdanovych showed him blowing out the birthday candles -- a week later, he was dead, a victim of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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The last photo taken of Sasha Zdanovych showed him blowing out the candles on his birthday cake.
A week later, the 4-year-old was dead, another young victim of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The boy disappeared on a boat that capsized as it desperately tried to escape the slaughter via a 6-mile wide reservoir on the Dnieper River, The Sun reported.
“There was no other way to escape then — the Russian military blocked all roads,” said Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, who told world leaders Sasha’s story during his virtual global tour on April 7. “They shot people on the roads. So the adults tried to escape from them by the river.”
His heartbroken mother, Anna Yakhno, spent 26 days not knowing what happened to her son before his body was found.
“The world must never forget Sasha’s name or the man responsible,” Yakhno, 25, told The Sun.