Adriana Unolt Ternopil Secondary School No. 26/Facebook Kyiv, Ukraine —

Tributes are being paid to a 12-year-old girl who died nine days after a Russian strike on her family’s apartment building in western Ukraine last week.

“Her mother was killed, and her sister is still in the hospital. Now Adriana is in a place where there is no fear or explosions - next to her mother, in a quiet and bright place, beyond the reach of war” Serhii Nadal, the mayor of Ternopil, wrote in a post on Telegram Thursday.

Adriana was a “bright, kind” child with “cheerful eyes” who was “loved and appreciated by her classmates and teachers,” according to her school.

Western Ukraine has been spared the brunt of Russia’s aerial assault during the three-year conflict.

But last week, this perception of safe

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