Diana Koshyk’s friend said that the 23-year-old had trouble getting pregnant and suffered from several miscarriages before she and her husband finally got the news they wanted: they were expecting.
The doctor said pregnancy was at high risk, so Koshik was sent to what he believed was the safest place for her and her baby, the safest place for her and her baby, Kamianke’s maternity hospital in eastern Ukraine.
Early on Tuesday morning, Russian troops struck the hospital with ballistic missiles, killing her unborn baby and two other people. At least 22 people were injured, including several nurses and midwives, doctors and patients.
Koshik’s sudden death shocked her loved ones when she was full of hope.
“She and her husband wanted a child, but they had a miscarriage… and she got pregnant with a smile on her. She was already seven months old.
Another longtime friend, Anna Bunich, described Koshik as “the ray of the sun.”
“She loved her children so much, she was waiting for herself eagerly… and now Russia has cut the threads of their lives,” Bnich told CNN.
Kamianke’s maternity hospital was one of several apparently civilian targets struck by Russia just hours after President Donald Trump announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin had cut the 50-day deadline to end the war “10 or 12 days.”
Speaking to a Scottish reporter on Monday, Trump showed he has run out of patience with President Putin.
“We thought it had settled down many times, so Putin goes outside and starts launching rockets in cities like Kiev, killing a lot of people in nursing homes and more,” Trump said.
Ukraine welcomed the new deadline and said Putin would only respond to the show of strength.
“A clear stance and stated resolve by (Trump) — when, on time, many can change their strength for real peace,” Ukrainian President Voldymir Zelensky told X.
But Trump’s new deadline did not stop Russia from launching a deadly attack.
At least 27 civilians were killed throughout Ukraine until Tuesday morning. This is a very high death toll, considering the large increase in the number of drones and missiles that Russia has recently launched towards Ukraine.
Five people were killed when a rocket launcher strike crashed into a small grocery store in the village of Novoplatnivka in the Khalkiv area, killing 16 civilians in the attack at a prison in the Zaporisia area.
Zelensky said the fatal attacks indicate that Russia is not interested in peace.
“Russia’s leadership is wasting the world’s time by talking about peace while killing people,” he said.
“The killing of our people through the strikes of Russians, all of the Russians, shows that Moscow is very harsh, truly painful and therefore deserves fair and effective sanctions pressure when the ceasefire may have been in place for a long time, if not due to Russia’s rejection.”
However, the Kremlin seemed less gradual to the new threat.
“I warned about President Trump’s statement yesterday,” Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Tuesday.
“Special military operations continue as before,” he added, using Moscow’s term for the war with Ukraine.
