In the early hours of 4 September, Russian forces attacked Lviv with drones and missiles. Yevheniia Bazylevych began evacuating her daughters – Yaryna, Dariia, and Emiliia – from their apartment to the main corridor of the building, where they would be safer from shrapnel. Their lives were cut short when a missile struck the building, causing the main staircase to collapse. The father, Yaroslav, was hospitalized with injuries.
Yevheniia was 43 years old. She worked as a marketing specialist and was also a yoga instructor and a perfumer. She loved to travel and spend time with her family. Friends remember her as a creative, positive, and energetic person.
Yaryna was 21. She was a graduate of the Vasyl Stus Lyceum of International Relations. She later graduated from Lviv Polytechnic National University with a degree in Computer Science and worked as a program manager at the ‘Lviv – European Youth Capital 2025’ office. She is remembered as kind, bright, sincere, and always smiling.
Dariia was 18. Born in Lviv, she was a member of the Ukrainian scouting organization ‘Plast’. Like her older sister, she also graduated from the Vasyl Stus Lyceum of International Relations and was a student at the Ukrainian Catholic University. She was in her second year of the Cultural Studies program in the Faculty of Humanities and served as a mentor in UCU’s ‘Volunteer Laboratory’. A scholarship recipient, Dariia is remembered as active and gifted. In her free time, she attended a theatre studio, studying acting.
Emiliia Bazylevych was just days away from celebrating her 7th birthday. She was a second-grade student at the ‘Svitanok’ School in Lviv. Musically talented, she also studied piano at Music School No. 1, named after Anatolii Kos-Anatolskyi. She could already read sheet music, had performed in concerts, and loved to improvise at home on an old piano. Emiliia spoke fluent English, having learned it from cartoons. She had been skiing since early childhood, taught by her father, mother, and sisters.