Photo: Yuriy Glodan Facebook page
On April 23, a Russian rocket that struck a residential building in Odessa killed publicist Valeria Glodan and her three-month-old daughter. The death of his wife, mother and daughter was confirmed by Valeria's husband Yuriy Glodan.
Russia hit Odessa with several missiles from the Caspian Sea.
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Six people were killed and eighteen were injured in an apartment building hit by one of the missiles. After the strike, the Russian Defense Ministry said that "a high-precision missile of the Russian Air Force this afternoon disabled a logistics terminal at a military airfield near Odessa, which housed a large consignment of foreign weapons from the United States and European countries."
Valerie was twenty-eight years old. She studied journalism at Odessa Mechnikov University. She worked as a publicist and brand manager. Her daughter Kira was born in January 2022.