Ukrainian man says he learned on Twitter of wife, children’s deaths from Russian shelling

were killed near Kyiv after identifying graphic photos on Twitter."I recognized the luggage and that is how I knew," Serhiy Perebyinis told The New York Times.Perebyinis was helping his sick mother in eastern Ukraine when his wife decided to flee their home in Irpin, near Kyiv, with their two children last week after their apartment was hit by Russian shelling, the New York Times reported."I told her, ‘Forgive me that I couldn’t defend you,’" Perebyinis recalled to the outlet of what he told his wife the night before she died. "I tried to care for one person, and it meant I cannot protect you.""She said, ‘Don’t worry, I will get out.’"RELATED: Russia-Ukraine war: Intense combat continues to hit MariupolA residential building damaged by a missile on February 25, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Yesterday, Russia began a large-scale attack on Ukraine, with Russian troops invading the country from the north, east and south, accompanied by air strikes and shelli A church volunteer, Anatoly Berezhnyi, was assisting the family flee on Sunday, but the group was 12 yards away from where a mortar shell hit.

The shrapnel killed the family and Berezhnyi.Hours after their deaths, a photo on social media circulated and Perebyinis confirmed that his wife, Tetiana Perebyinis, 43, and their two children, Mykyta, 18, and Alisa, 9, were dead based on identifying their luggage.He said that it is important that a photograph captured his family’s death."The whole world should know what is happening here," he told the New York Times.The image was taken by New York Times photographer Lynsey Addario, who witnessed a series of mortars falling before the family was killed."I went forward and found a place sort of behind a wall and started photographing,".