An old man sitting on a chair near a foil blanket covering something lying on the ground.

This photo broke Ukrainian social networks today.

Under the foil blanket is the body of his 9-year-old granddaughter k**led by a russian rocket yesterday in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Her 34-year-old mother died with her, too.

They were in the street, looking for shelter, about 4 minutes after the air raid alarm was switched on.

The grandfather refused to go and was just sitting on the ground next to his granddaughter’s lifeless body. Someone brought him a chair. He stayed there for several hours until the ambulance came to take the body.

1 June was the Day of Protecting Kids in the Soviet Union. Russia still celebrates this day. It celebrated it this year again.

In 2023, on 1 June russia fired 10 ballistic and cruise missiles at Kyiv, and pieces of one of them k**led this girl and her mother.

This is a picture of me as a baby with my dad. Just an innocent daddy daughter picture right?

Wrong. This was in the middle of the events that scarred me mentally for a very very long time. Only recently at 22 have I started to properly heal from the trauma.

He ab*sed me both physically and s*xually from 3 months old until I was removed from the home at 18 months old. I was too young to tell anyone what was happening and he was never convicted because there was no “proof.”

I guess multiple statements from siblings and doctors wasn't enough. He did, however, sign away his rights and never see me again to avoid court and risk the chance he could go to prison.

This is Saman Kunan.
You may remember an incident in 2018 where twelve boys aged eleven to sixteen, as well as their 25-year-old coach, got trapped in a cave after it was flooded.
The days-long rescue effort was a success, but it didn’t come without cost. Saman Kunan was one of the volunteers, a former Thai Navy SEAL. When he made a dive to deliver air tanks though, he ran out of air on his way back and lost consciousness.

CPR attempts failed and he was declared dead, aged just thirty-seven. That first photo is the last one of him, taken moments before his fatal but heroic dive.

In 2009, mourners at a funeral in Dundee, Scotland were shocked to see a man wearing a bright neon dress among the mourners. Upon learning the reason why, (some of) the mourners’ initial shock gave away to unbridled grief.

Earlier that year, friends Barry Delaney and Kevin Elliot had met during a regular evening in Delaney’s apartment to swig a few drinks and catch up. Elliot had been on a break from his tour to Afghanistan as a member of the British Army.

During the course of the evening, Elliot had told Delaney that he was terrified of the prospect of going back to Afghanistan and that he feared he may not return from his posting at Helmand if he went back. However, Delaney had chided him that he better come back because of a pact the duo had made 3 years earlier - Delaney would wear a dress, the brighter the better, if Elliot was k**led in action.

The two friends did not know how soon their pact would be realized. Just 6 weeks after that evening’s events, Elliot, who was a Black Watch infantryman, would be k**led in an ambush.

A few weeks later, at Elliot’s funeral, a heartbroken Delaney would keep his word and don a neon dress from Primark and knee-high socks to keep his promise.

Most of the people in attendance were aware of the friends’ pact and were sympathetic to the massive loss suffered by Delaney. Delaney and Elliot’s pact made national and international headlines in 2009 and serves as a reminder of the pain suffered by those who are left behind upon the death of a soldier k**led in action.

The two Dutch windmill engineers.

Russian teen adopts a puppy, you won't believe what happens next.

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There's a special place in hell for people like these