Ukrainian Silicon Valley Worker Found Dead In Gutter Beside Her Kid's Bodies In Irpin

A Ukrainian mother and Silicon Valley worker was killed during a Russian bombing in the Irpin on Tuesday, March 8, as they attempted to run away to Kyiv in search of an easy evacuation out of the country, causing outrage throughout the world for their merciless killing.

Forty-three-year-old Tatiana Perebeinis, and her two kids, 9-year-old Alise and 18-year-old Nikita, were found dead after a mortar shell hit a bridge that Perebeinis and her family were attempting to cross, blowing up and killing the three and a church volunteer who was guiding them through the area, the Daily Beast reported.

Perebeinis was employed by SE Ranking, a Silicon Valley-based startup where she worked as the chief accountant and leader of the Ukrainian team. The company had asked her about leaving the country before the incidents occurred, but she was unable to do so earlier due to her mother’s Alzheimer's and her 18-year-old son not being allowed to leave the country, according to the New York Post.

“There are no words to describe our grief or to mend our pain. But for us, it is crucial to not let Tania and her kids Alise and Nikita remain just statistics. Her family became the victim of the unprovoked fire on civilians, which under any law is a crime against humanity,” SE Ranking said in a statement.

Her husband, Serhiy Perebeinis, had been in Eastern Ukraine during the Russian invasion, caring for her mother in an area filled with separatists. Although he had been tracking her wife’s movements on a GPS, he did not find out about her death until he saw a photograph of their dead body in the New York Times, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

“I recognized the luggage and that is how I knew,” Serhiy said.

He promptly left eastern Ukraine to pick up his wife and children’s bodies, and although he was stopped at some point by Russian soldiers in the Russian-Poland border in his journey to Kyiv, he has arrived to pick up his wife’s body at an overcrowded morgue. It is unclear if he knows where his children’s bodies are being stored.

Outrage has poured out across the world for the killing of the family, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy promising vengeance against those who targeted the family as well as similar civilians across Ukraine.

“There will be no quiet place on Earth for you,” he said. “Except for the grave.”