Polina, who was nine or 10 years old at the time, was in her final year of primary school. According to reports, she and her parents were killed when Russian saboteurs opened fire on their family automobile.

According to the city's deputy mayor Volodymyr Bondarenko, her sister is in intensive care and her brother is being treated at a children's hospital following the attack in the capital's northwest.

Ukraine reports that 45 children have been injured in addition to the killings five days into the invasion.