‘The bread was in blood’: Grocery run ends man’s life in Ukraine’s Kharkiv:

Victor Gubarev stepped out to purchase bread when he was killed by a fraction from a shell that landed in entrance of his residence block in Kharkiv on Monday, minutes earlier than his daughter arrived to search out an ambulance crew standing over his physique.

Crew members needed to maintain Yana Bachek again as they carried her father’s physique away following the blasts that hit the Soviet-era residence complicated the place they reside.

An English trainer, she stated she had been getting ready an internet lesson within the kitchen of her one-bedroom residence, shut by her mother and father’ flat, when the shelling began.

“I remember just the explosion,” she stated. “I just returned from shopping and crazy explosions, noise.”

Immediately her mom, Lyubov, referred to as, voice trembling, and stated her father had gone to purchase bread and was nonetheless exterior. Her associate, Yevgeniy, stopped her from dashing out right away in case there have been follow-up strikes, as there have been, seconds later.

The bread that Victor Gubarev, 79, was carrying when he was killed by shelling. (Photo: Reuters)

“I began to call him and there was no answer,” she stated.

When she pulled on her coat and went out a couple of minutes later, her anguished response to the sight of her father’s physique was caught by photographers who had arrived with the ambulances, shortly after the blasts.

“I am sorry. I want to forget it. The picture. The one picture I saw him,” Bachek stated.