On the evening of June 24, 16-year-olds Tihran Ohannisian and Mykyta Khanhanov went for a walk in their hometown of Berdiansk, a Russian-occupied city in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhzhia Oblast. The two got some street food, saw some friends, and discussed how they would celebrate Khanhanov's 17th birthday the next day. At around 7 p.m., Ohannisian called his mother, who had earlier fled occupied Berdiansk and moved to Germany with her younger children.
Russian invaders have seized the bodies of two 16-year-olds, Tyhran Ohanesyan and Mykyta Khanhanov, who were killed by Russian soldiers in the occupied town of Berdyansk.
Representatives of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in occupied Berdiansk do not give the relatives of Tihran Ohannisian and Mykyta Khanhanov a certificate of permission for burial, which makes it impossible to pick up their bodies from the morgue and bury them.
Visiting frontline of Ukraine's counter-offensive against Russian invaders, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy praises troops for "progress in all directions".
Journalist Yanina Sokolova has interviewed the mother of 16-year-old Tyhran Ohanesyan, one of two teens murdered by Russians in occupied Berdyansk, on the evening of June 24.