Serhiy Perebyinis found out his wife and two children had been killed just outside Kyiv after seeing viral photos. “I recognized the luggage and that is how I knew,” he said.
there between pro-Russian separatists and forces backed by Ukraine’s government, Perebyinis told The Post. The family left and settled in Kyiv.Tatiana Perebyinis worked for SE Ranking, a Silicon Valley software company, joining its offices in Kyiv in 2016 and rising to become the head of the company’s accounting department, Ksenia Khirvonina, a spokeswoman for the company, told The Post. Perebyinis had been in the office with her daughter the day before Russian troops invaded the country on Feb.
But their apartment building was soon struck by shelling, forcing the family into a basement with no food or electricity, Khirvonina told The Post. The children died instantly, Khirvonina said, and Serhiy Perebyinis said his wife died at the hospital the next day. Even before the photos hit social media, Perebyinis knew something was wrong because he had been tracking his wife’s cellphone and saw her location jump from the highway to a hospital in Kyiv, he told The Post.Tatiana Perebyinis’s co-worker knew it was her in the photographs because she had been wearing the coat on a company retreat only weeks before.