Kyiv paid final respects to 56-year-old paramedic Serhii Smoliak, who was killed on January 9, while providing aid to victims of a Russian attack on the capital, when a second strike landed about 50 meters away, hromadske’s correspondent reports.
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❗️A 🇷🇺Russian assault group in unarmoured UAZ vehicles is blown up on anti-tank mines pic.twitter.com/0SywrANkmK
— 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@front_ukrainian) 12 janvier 2026A Russian assault group in unarmoured UAZ vehicles is blown up on anti-tank mines
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Serhii Smoliak’s Memory: Paramedic Killed in Second Strike
Today Kyiv mourned at St. Michael’s Cathedral: 56yo paramedic Serhii Smoliak, who fled occupied Kakhovka & continued saving lives in the capital, killed Jan 9 when russia launched a second strike as medics treated victims.
— EMPR.media (@EuromaidanPR) 12 janvier 2026
25+ years as senior ambulance medic. Final escort:… pic.twitter.com/5xCa48oClGToday Kyiv mourned at St. Michael’s Cathedral: 56-year-old paramedic Serhii Smoliak, who fled occupied Kakhovka and continued saving lives in the capital, was killed on Jan 9 when Russia launched a second strike as medics treated victims. More than 25 years as a senior ambulance medic. Final escort:
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❗️🇺🇦Ukrainian troops from the 155th Mechanized Brigade are attacking 🇷🇺Russian equipment and infantry in Pokrovsk and on the outskirts of the city. pic.twitter.com/NYpPyCQxBj
— 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@front_ukrainian) 12 janvier 2026Ukrainian troops from the 155th Mechanized Brigade are attacking Russian equipment and infantry in Pokrovsk and on the outskirts of the city.
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The Russians struck the ambulance on January 11 in the town of Semenivka. Two medics, aged 47 and 54, were injured and are currently in the hospital. The medics' vehicle was damaged.