"Volodymyr Zelenskyy described Nataliia Khodemchuk as the victim of a new tragedy caused by the Kremlin, nearly four decades after her husband, Valerii, was killed inside Chornobyl's nuclear reactor number four. Valerii was the only plant worker whose body was never recovered. A circulating pump operator, he was in the reactor's main northern hall in April 1986 when an explosion ripped through the unit. His remains are still under the rubble."
"On Friday, a drone crashed into the side of her building, known as Chornobyl house, on Honore de Balzac street in the Troyeshchyna district. She suffered 45% burns and died later in hospital. Six other people were killed in the attack. The Kyiv apartment block is home to other former Chornobyl workers, including Oleksiy Ananenko, who dived into a tank beneath the reactor, preventing a second explosion."
"We lost a woman who went through Chornobyl hell, lost her husband, raised children and withstood tragedies that would break anyone. But not her, it said. Nataliia lived with dignity, love, and a quiet strength that inspired everyone who knew her personally or through her story. She was cheerful, supported others, and shone. Now her voice joins the voices of all innocent Ukrainians killed by Russian terror."
Nataliia Khodemchuk, widow of Valerii Khodemchuk—the first Soviet engineer to die in the 1986 Chornobyl reactor four explosion—was killed in a Russian drone and missile strike on Kyiv. Valerii's body was never recovered and remains under the reactor rubble. Nataliia had been evacuated from Pripyat after the blast and housed in a Kyiv left-bank apartment that became home to other former Chornobyl workers. A drone crashed into her building in the Troyeshchyna district, causing severe burns; she suffered 45% burns and died later in hospital. Six other people died. State officials said she had been due to join a 40th-anniversary photoshoot and praised her resilience.
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