Who killed Rita Horbyk? A war crime in Ukraine, heartbreak and a flawed investigation The commander’s deadly order initiated a sequence of events that defies simple narratives about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Unwilling to kill innocents, two Russian soldiers disobeyed and tried to save a woman and her daughter.
When Russian troops opened fire, the woman was killed.So was one of the insubordinate soldiers. The other was badly wounded and it would take another act of humanity to save his life.The woman who came to his rescue was a Kharkiv lawyer named Karolina Perlifon, the passenger in the car whom the defiant Russians tried to save.In an interview at the home she shares with the dogs she inherited from her mother Iryna, she recalled her moral dilemma.“It was my choice to save him or not to save him,” she said. “And I said to him that he will be able to live, and I will save him.”“He’s a human who was just a hostage of the situation,” she explained. “He directly didn’t do anything bad, and for me personally it was a pity for him.”On Feb.
24, she and her mother woke early in Bobrivka, their village northeast of Kharkiv, to the sound of explosions and news of the Russian invasions.Uncertain what the future held, they drove into Kharkiv to stock up on dog food and supplies.They were heading back to Bobrivka when they came upon Russian tanks blocking the ring road.And then the Russians started shooting at cars.
After Russian missile destroys mall, wife of missing man waits and hopes Terrified, Iryna turned her car around and stopped.