An American social worker waiting in line to buy bread in Ukraine died after being shot by Russian snipers.
The US State Department confirmed the death, and the The victim would be Jimmy Hill.
The events in which Hill was shot down were reported on Wednesday in Chernihiv.
The man’s sister, identified as Cheryl Hill, indicated on Facebook that the body was found on the street by the area police.
“My brother Jimmy Hill was killed yesterday (Wednesday) in Chernihiv, Ukraine. He was waiting in line for bread with other people when they were shot down by Russian military snipers. His body was found on the street by local police,” Cheryl Hill shared on Facebook as quoted by The Washington Post on Thursday.
According to the Ukrainian authorities, at least 10 people died while waiting in line at the bakery in Chernihiv on Wednesday.
The family de Hill stated in an interview with Fox News that the victim was 67 years old and originally from Minnesota.
Hill spent half a year in the United States working with the properties he leased through Airbnb in Idaho and Montana, while the other half traveled to Ukraine where he worked as a social worker.
Hill’s widow is a Ukrainian who suffers from multiple sclerosis. The woman had been in the hospital since the Russian invasion of the country began.
“He only went out to try to find more food because the hospital ration was only cereal, and all they received each day were small portions of that, so he went out to find more,” he explained. his other sister Katya Hil to Fox.
Hill is the second American killed in Ukraine in the midst of the war with Russia. Last week, filmmaker Brent Renaud was killed when the car he was traveling in was shot at