“Non ho più nipote e voglio urlare in tutto il mondo: i genitori, amano i tuoi figli e dirlo così ogni secondo. Perché a volte potresti non avere un’altra possibilità”

Kyrylo, 21, was the only grandson and the hope of his grandparents, Natalia and Volodymyr. He sustained severe injuries in a missile strike on a children’s playground in Kryvyi Rih on April 4. Kyrylo spent 12 days in intensive care and died on April 16.

That evening, when Russian forces attacked the city, Kyrylo was out walking with two friends. One of them was killed instantly by shrapnel; Kyrylo and the other friend were injured. His grandmother Natalia recalled that she didn’t know where the strike had happened, so she immediately tried calling her grandson.

“It was loud, and I called him right away. He picked up and said, ‘Grandma, I’ll call you back,’” she remembered.

That was the last time she heard his voice. The next morning, she managed to find him in the ICU of one of the hospitals. The doctors gave no predictions.

“The inferior vena cava was punctured, his intestines were perforated, his stomach pierced, and his liver was damaged. He remained like that for 12 days,” said Natalia.

She visited Kyrylo in the hospital every day. He was kept in a medically induced coma, but doctors encouraged her to keep talking to him. She would share news with him. On April 16, his heart stopped.

“That last day… I was talking to him, and tears were running down his cheeks. His eyes followed me,” she recalled.

Natalia said Kyrylo had come to live with her and his grandfather 16 years ago. His mother had died when he was five, and a year and a half ago, his father went missing on the front line.

“We raised him. We loved him deeply. He was our only grandchild—he still is. Now we don’t have a grandson anymore,” she said.

On June 4, Kyrylo’s grandparents found the strength to visit the site of the tragedy for the first time and lay flowers at the playground where he died.

“Of course I went there—as I can’t visit him anywhere else. I used to pick him up from kindergarten, drive him to training,” said Volodymyr.

Kyrylo loved sports and practiced martial arts. He was studying to become a coach in Zaporizhzhia.

“I don’t understand how this can happen. A child simply went out for a walk. I just want to scream to the whole world: parents, love your children, and tell them so every second. Because sometimes it’s so hard, and you might not get another chance,” Natalia said.

Kyrylo’s beloved cat and dog live with the grandparents and they say the animals still wait for him to return.

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