Ukrainian lady who fled to Israel for leukemia therapy killed in Iranian strike

Seven-year-old Nastia Borik, who got here to Israel from Ukraine’s Odessa for life-saving leukemia therapy, was killed in an Iranian missile strike on a residential constructing in Bat Yam, alongside 4 members of her household. Israeli President Isaac Herzog confirmed the deaths in a deeply emotional assertion.

“She got here searching for life. As an alternative, she was murdered — alongside along with her mom Maria, her younger cousins Konstantin and Ilya, and her grandmother Lena — by a murderous Iranian missile,” Herzog mentioned.

The missile strike, which Israeli officers say was launched at civilians, claimed the lives of 5 Ukrainian residents: Nastia; her mom Mariia Pieshkurova, 30; her grandmother Lena, 60; and her two cousins, Ilya, 13, and Konstantin, 9.

“They have been civilians. Refugees. A household clinging to hope. Burned alive by the Ayatollahs’ missiles — fired intentionally at harmless individuals,” Herzog added.

“The world should condemn Iran’s indefensible crimes — and stand with Israel towards Tehran’s Empire of Evil.”

Mariia Pieshkurova had documented her daughter’s most cancers battle on Instagram, often updating followers on Nastia’s situation. Identified in August 2022, Nastia had suffered two relapses, most not too long ago in April 2025.

In a haunting last put up on Could 27, Pieshkurova wrote: “I’ll save my daughter, it doesn’t matter what it takes As a result of Nastya is my life. She is all I’ve. And so long as I breathe, I scream, I encourage, I consider, I battle.” Nastia’s father, Artem Borik, is a Ukrainian soldier at present deployed on the entrance traces towards Russia.