The 17-year-old boy killed in the russian missile strike on Kyiv studied aviation and rocket-space technology

The 17-year-old boy, whom his friends had been hoping to find alive all day yesterday at the site of the Russian missile strike on Kyiv’s Sviatoshynskyi district, was named Danylo Khudia.

He studied at the Kyiv Aviation Vocational College, majoring in “Aviation and Rocket-Space Technology.”

One of Danylo’s friends, Ivan, who went to the same school as him, shared this with hromadske.

“Danya was the kind of person I had never seen before,” the student said.

“He was always positive, always playing football with us at School No. 185. He even helped me with work because he worked for Glovo. But there’s nothing we can do now. Brother stays in the heart forever. He’s always with us…” Ivan said.

Danylo’s father, Oleh, and mother, Viktoriia, also died.

Only Danylo’s younger sister managed to survive; she is currently in the hospital. The girl is already aware of the loss.

They lived on the first floor of the building that was struck by a Russian ballistic missile.

According to Danylo’s friends, his father was a serviceman.

“His father had been at the front since 2022, a tank operator. Later he was wounded and was undergoing rehabilitation…” the mother of one of the students told hromadske.

Yesterday, a group of schoolchildren had been waiting for news about their friend since 5 a.m. as the rubble was being cleared.

In the evening, it became known that there was no miracle: rescuers recovered the boy’s body from under the debris.

The college where Danylo Khudia studied has organized a fundraiser to support his family. You can also contribute by following this link.

Ukraine Front Lines