Natalijia Khodemchuk, widow of Valery Khodemchuk, who has been honored as the first victim of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, was seriously injured when her apartment building was hit by Russian drones in Friday's attack on the capital.
On Saturday, Ukrainian authorities announced that her life could not be saved, writes The Kyiv Independent .
Her apartment building was one of several civilian buildings hit in the extensive attack – which has so far claimed seven lives and injured almost 40 people.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy comments on Khodemchuk's death in a post on X, calling it "a new tragedy caused by the Kremlin."
The Chernobyl meltdown is the most devastating nuclear accident ever. Valery Khodemchuk was killed in the first explosion. He has gone down in history as the first fatality of the disaster, and figures in dramatizations such as Johan Renck's television series "Chernobyl." His body was never found.
