Yulia Kadurina was 19 years old. She died in Mariupol on March 16, 2022. Her mother, younger brother, and grandmother also died alongside her.
Yulia was born and raised in Mariupol. She received her secondary education at Lyceum No. 14. She loved to sing and was very good at it.
After the large-scale Russian offensive against Ukraine, Yulia and her family hid from the barrage of shelling in the basement of a barn. Her relatives were in the Livoberezhny district of the city, which the enemy had been mercilessly shelling since the first days of the invasion.
On March 16, 2022, a shell hit the barn where they were hiding in the basement. Yulia, her mother Natalia, her brother Oleksiy, and her grandmother were killed. The next day, the girl's father, Volodymyr, tried to dig his relatives out from under the rubble and was also killed. He was killed by a fragment of another shell that exploded nearby.
“What was Yulia like? She was wonderful, gentle, calm, responsible. She was always smiling. She would just come up and ask how I was doing. She had beautiful long hair. She was slender, very feminine,” recalled the girl's former teacher, Olena Shuvalova.
“She was a good student and very talented. She loved Ukraine. She sang beautifully. She liked to be inconspicuous. The boys admired her! And her braid—it was incredibly long and always attracted attention. In a word, I just love her,” said Yulia's former homeroom teacher, Yaroslav Riznychenko.
Yulia Kadurina's only surviving relative is her uncle.
At 9:00 a.m., there will be a nationwide minute of silence. Donetsk Regional State Administration and Memorial platform: those killed by Russia remember the residents of Donetsk region killed by Russians.