On the morning of Friday, January 24, around 08:40, a well-known blogger from Kharkiv, Anna (Anet) Zhuk, tragically lost her life on the "Kyiv-Kharkiv-Dovzhansky" highway near the village of Zasulye in the Poltava region. This was reported by blogger Zhenya Zub.
According to the police, a car driven by a 1999-born male collided with a stationary Renault Premium truck, which was positioned off the roadway.
The Lexus, driven by her husband, was involved in the accident while overtaking another vehicle. As a result of the incident, the 39-year-old passenger died at the scene. The man and one of their sons, born in 2015, who was also in the vehicle, sustained injuries and were hospitalized at the Lubyanka Intensive Care Hospital.
Blogger Anna Alkhim couldn't hold back her tears upon hearing the tragic news. Initially, she expressed hope with a trembling voice that it was just a bad joke. However, she later wrote that she still couldn't believe it.
Blogger and millionaire Yana Doga mentioned that she found it very difficult to cope with this information.
"We are all just in shock. She was on her way to a birthday party," she noted.
Blogger Daria Pazyuk ("Baba Dasha") shared footage of the horrific accident, showing the wrecked car, and added that she learned Anna Zhuk was in the vehicle with her family.
Kirill Skachkov, who started as a culinary blogger, stated that they were supposed to meet a few hours later.
Blogger Denis Povetkin remarked that he should have been with her on that fateful day.
Blogger and entrepreneur Olga Fileva took the news of Anna's passing very hard. In a video, she is seen crying bitterly for her friend.
Blogger, actor, and singer Oleg Mashukovsky expressed that he was in shock upon hearing about Anna Zhuk's death.
He added that this forced him to cancel the birthday celebration for Michelle, for whom he is presumably the godfather. Michelle is the daughter of blogger Stasya Makeeva.