A daughter's shock as a trip to buy bread ends her father's life in Ukraine

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A daughter's shock as a trip to buy bread ends her father's life in Ukraine
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An English teacher, she said she had been preparing an online lesson in the kitchen of her one-bedroom apartment, close by her parents' flat, when the shelling started.

ABC News’ James Longman reports on the latest news on the war in Ukraine.Editor's note: This story contains graphic images that may be disturbing.

An English teacher, she said she had been preparing an online lesson in the kitchen of her one-bedroom apartment, close by her parents' flat, when the shelling started. When she pulled on her coat and went out a few minutes later, her anguished reaction to the sight of her father's body was caught by photographers who had arrived with the ambulances, shortly after the blasts.Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters

Russia says its incursion is intended to demilitarise and"denazify" Ukraine. Kyiv and its Western allies reject that as a false pretext for war. Sitting in her kitchen, occasionally fighting back tears, Bachek, their only child, shared family photos showing her father with an Elvis-style quiff on holidays by the Black Sea, beaming at Lyubov or swinging his granddaughter playfully in a shopping bag.

Now she waits until her father can be buried but here too the war has imposed an additional agony as the sheer number of dead has grown and normal funerals have become impossible.The bread that Victor Gubarev, 79, was carrying when he was killed by shelling during Russia's invasion of Ukraine, is seen in the home of his daughter, Yana Bachek, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, April 19, 2022.

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