A series of videos and still images posted on social media appear to trace the final hours of Lisa, who turned four in March, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Her mother, Iryna, lost a leg in the strike, which was condemned by Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, as “an open act of terrorism”. Lisa’s mother had taken her daughter in a pink and black pram to an education center in a town believed to be far from the front lines, a four-hour drive west of the capital, Kyiv. In the first video, taken at 9.38am, Lisa can be seen in white leggings and a blue denim top with an egg-shaped patch on her shoulder, pushing her own pram. Her hair is tied with a white butterfly clip. Lisa Dmitrieva pushes her stroller. Photo: Twitter Lisa smiles and looks at her mother walking beside her. From time to time, Irina also enters the frame, dressed in white and smiling shyly. In the next still image, Lisa is seen squatting next to a low table in the training center and studying a sheet of pictures in a speech therapy session. Lisa Dmitrieva at a training center. Photo: Twitter Just before 11 a.m., mother and daughter head out to walk along the sidewalk along one side of Vinnytsia’s central Premehoy Square, passing near the city’s House of Officers, a colonnaded former Soviet-era building that it is now used as a cultural center for concerts and performances. Lisa never made it home. Shortly after 11 a.m., three of seven rockets, reportedly fired from a Russian submarine in the Black Sea, smashed into the square, exploded near the cultural center, blew out windows in a high-rise building and left dozens of cars in a nearby parking lot. on fire. Amid the carnage, more footage – which the Guardian is not publishing – shows Lisa lying dead in her overturned pram. Nearby is a severed leg. A soldier’s arm can be seen in some shots reaching towards the cart. Large scraps of metal litter the square. A column of thick smoke fills the sky. Lisa was one of three children killed in the attack on a busy street in a town that had escaped the invasion relatively unscathed. Her mother survived the initial blast with serious injuries. A local newspaper spoke to a friend of Iryna’s – known as Ira – as she traveled to the hospital where she was being treated. “She is my best friend. We both have ‘sunny’ children,” said Lidia Voitenko, using a Ukrainian expression for children with developmental problems. “We were renting an apartment together. “Ira was apparently conscious when she was taken to intensive care, but Lisa died at the scene. I can’t say more. It is too difficult.”
