Two children remain orphaned after their parents from Khmelnik were killed in a minibus during the shelling of Kyiv. (Photo)

The shelling of Kyiv during the massive attack by the Russian Federation on Ukraine using drones and ballistic missiles on January 18 claimed the lives of a married couple from the Vinnytsia region. This was reported by local resident Sonya Holovanyuk on Facebook.

According to her, the enemy strike killed the young spouses from the town of Khmelnyk in the Vinnytsia region: Svitlana and Oleksii.

"They had a wonderful family, leaving behind two minor children: Vlad and Anna," Sonya Holovanyuk wrote.

Information about the couple's death was confirmed in a comment to "Suspilne" by the chairman of the Khmelnytskyi City Council, Mykola Yurchyshyn. A minibus caught fire in the Shevchenkivskyi district of the capital due to falling debris, where Oleksii and Svitlana were at that moment.

Employees of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine completed rescue operations on the evening of January 18, with the latest reports indicating three fatalities and three injuries.

The head of the Kyiv City Military Administration (KCMA), Timur Tkachенко, reported that as a result of the ballistic attack on Kyiv, two men aged 43 and 25, as well as a 41-year-old woman, lost their lives. The Prosecutor General's Office specified that a security guard of a dining establishment and a man and woman who were in the minibus nearby were among the deceased. Residents noted that explosions in the capital occurred even before the alarm was announced.

It is worth recalling that Yuri Ihnat, head of the Air Force Command's communications department, reported that in the morning of January 18, one of the two ballistic missiles aimed at the capital was shot down at a low altitude, leading to significant destruction.