Kyiv, Ukraine
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Tributes are being paid to a 12-year-old girl who died nine days after a Russian strike on her family’s apartment building in western Ukraine last week.
“Her mother was killed, and her sister is still in the hospital. Now Adriana is in a place where there is no fear or explosions – next to her mother, in a quiet and bright place, beyond the reach of war” Serhii Nadal, the mayor of Ternopil, wrote in a post on Telegram Thursday.
Adriana was a “bright, kind” child with “cheerful eyes” who was “loved and appreciated by her classmates and teachers,” according to her school.
Western Ukraine has been spared the brunt of…
