Odessa resident Yuriy Glodan died at the front. He joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces after his wife and daughter were killed in a Russian missile strike in April 2022

Ukrainian serviceman Yuriy Glodan, who lost his daughter, wife, and her mother during the Russian shelling of Odessa in April 2022, died in the war with Russia, Strana reports, citing a post by Alexander Yakovenko, co-owner of the Make My Cake project, where Glodan worked as a baker.

"I didn't communicate with him closely, but almost every Odessa resident knows this family. On April 23, 2022, the "Russian world" came to his family - a Russian missile destroyed the Tiras residential complex in Odessa. The tragedy took the lives of three-month-old Kira, her mother Valeria and grandmother Lyudmila. Today I learned that he died defending his country," Yakovenko wrote .

According to him, Glodan joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces after losing his loved ones. He first fought in the ranks of Azov , and then in the 3rd separate assault brigade, Yakovenko wrote. He also published a screenshot of the correspondence, from which it follows that Glodan was identified by a cross. Yakovenko himself noted that there is no official confirmation of the soldier's death yet.

• On April 23, 2022, eight people died in Odessa as a result of a Russian missile strike, including the family of Yuriy Glodan. He himself said that he was in a store at the time of the strike. Ukrainian authorities then reported that the Russian military attacked Odessa from the Caspian Sea, launching several missiles. At least one of them hit a multi-story residential building.
• At that time, the Russian Ministry of Defense limited itself to a statement that in the Odessa region, “high-precision missiles disabled a logistics terminal at a military airfield where a large batch of foreign weapons was stored.”