“Mom. This letter is a gift to you on March 8. If you think you raised me in vain. Thank you for the best nine years of my life,” the child wrote in a diary. “I am very grateful to you for my childhood. You are the best mom in the world. I will never forget you. I want you to be happy in heaven. I hope you go to paradise. We will meet in paradise. I will try to be good to go to paradise as well. “I kiss you, Galigia.” A ruined apartment building in Borodianka. Photo by Alexey Furman / Getty Images A photo of the diary was posted on Twitter by Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to the Ukrainian Interior Minister, who prefaced the post with the following: “Here is the letter from the 9-year-old girl to her mom who died in #Borodianka”.
