Artyoom Reznik’s home Jewish community in the city of Kharkiv mourned his loss.

Based on an article by  JERUSALEM POST STAFF, REUTERS

A Jew from Kharkiv was killed during the biggest air attack on Ukraine on Friday, according to sources in the Jewish community of Ukraine. The attack resulted in the killing of 31 civilians, wounding more than 160 others, and hitting cities and infrastructure across the country, Ukrainian officials said.

“There is deep mourning in the Jewish community in Kharkiv, upon learning of the death of Artyom Reznik, a thirty-year-old Jewish resident of the city,” The city’s rabbi and Chabad emissary, Rabbi Moshe Moskovitz, told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.

According to a statement by the Jewish Relief Network Ukraine (JNRU), “The news reached the Jewish community rabbi and Chabad emissary Moskovitz and his wife Miriam on Sunday evening, and they updated the community members, asking local Jews to attend his funeral.”

“Artyom’s mother regularly participates in the lessons taught by my wife,” Moskovitz recounted, “She is very active in the community and very well-known. This is a very painful tragedy, we are all mourning the disaster.”

Funeral plans for the fallen

Moskovitz said that the funeral will be held on Monday, in Kharkiv. The funeral will proceed from the synagogue to the cemetery.

“Next Thursday,” the rabbi continued, “we will conduct three circumcisions for Jews of different ages – a 15-year-old, a 40-year-old, and a 75-year-old.”

A representative of JNRU said in a statement on Sunday “Ukraine is trying to recover from the heaviest attack with a heavy barrage of 122 missiles and 36 kamikaze drones. “Chabad rabbis and emissaries have been continuously managing the communities in an emergency format for almost two years now, simply preserving the Jewish communities. One cannot describe their dedication.”