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Every day the victims of the war in Ukraine become more and more.

In an instant, the lives of entire families are broken and extinguished.

A father from Irpin learned of the deaths of his wife, two children, a boy and a girl, and two puppies, from a photo on Twitter following the March 6 attack by Russian forces.

He knew the suitcase and their belongings.

Now he tells their story himself.

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"Everyone in my family - my two children, my wife and our two dogs - went to heaven," Serhiy Perebinis told BNT.

Sergius is from Irpin.

The complex in which their apartment is located came under Russian mortar fire in early March.

After a night in the basement, his wife decides to run away with her children.

After the bombing of the maternity hospital in Mariupol: A pregnant woman and her baby died "I was in Donetsk at the time, it was occupied, as you know. I was forced to go because my mother fell ill with COVID-19 and doctors said the chances she's 50 to 50, "says Serhiy.

Serhiy, programmer and Tatiana, accountant.

They fall in love with a disco.

They have two children, 9-year-old Alice and 18-year-old Mikita. They love skiing and have just returned from a vacation in Georgia.

"On the evening of March 5, it was our last conversation ...," the man said.

They discuss the evacuation plan, decide Tatiana to take the car and more luggage.

The family had already experienced a similar nightmare in 2014. They decided to go to church in the morning and then join a column leaving Irpin.

The next day, Serhiy found out from his Google location that his wife was in a hospital in Kyiv.

It sounds desperate, but no one picks it up.

There is no connection with the children.

He saw on Twitter the photos of foreign journalists from the strikes in Irpin.

They were lying on the ground with their faces covered, but I recognized my children by their clothes, belongings, suitcase and bag with our two puppies. Nobody believed me. But I was 100% sure it was them, I saw the clothes and everything and the bag for the dogs. And after 20 minutes they released a video with the strike against our city, my family and the howl of my dog ​​", Serhiy tells about the tragedy.

He is left alone.

With one, the only backpack he had.

"I don't know how to live in the future. I don't have a family, my apartment is broken into, I don't know what condition my cars are in. I can't enter my city," said the blackened man.

"I will do my best to make the world aware of this, I will ask for help from organizations that investigate war crimes, these materials, this case to reach international institutions, this is not just terror, this is a real crime against the people." says Sergius.

His lost family, together with the grief of the people expelled from Irpin, are now an integral part of the history of this war.

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