“VINNYTSIA, Ukraine — They called her Sunny Flower. She had just learned her first words. She liked to clean the corridor at the speech therapy center she attended, and organize the toys. She always seemed happy. And after her final visit to the center on Thursday, Liza Dmytriyeva, a 4-year-old with Down syndrome, did what young children like to do — proudly push her own baby carriage through the park on a walk with her mother. It was, in other words, a typical, happy morning for Liza. But it ended in a flash of fire and metallic shrapnel from a Russian cruise missile strike on Vinnytsia, a central Ukrainian town far from the front lines, where some sense of normalcy had still been possible five months into the war. ...”
The stroller that Liza Dmytriyeva was pushing before she was killed in the Russian missile attack on Vinnytsia, Ukraine, on Thursday.
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