Anna Haidarzhy News Today

One push for getting the House speaker to allow a vote on aid centered on Russian invaders’ treatment of Ukraine’s small evangelical Christian community.

The family’s story and grief have resonated widely in Ukraine.

Serhii Haidarzhy’s wife and son were killed when their apartment block was hit. He and their daughter survived. The tragedy has become a symbol in Ukraine of the war’s terrible toll on civilians.

Five Ukrainian children were sleeping peacefully in their beds on March 2 when Russia launched the overnight drone attack against their hometown of Odesa that took their lives. Instead of waking up in the morning as usual and continuing their lives in war-torn Ukraine, it was March 3 before their five little bodies were retrieved from under the rubble of their homes. The children were four-month-old and seven-month-old infants, two boys, aged three and nine, and an eight-year-old girl.