BUCHA BEST FRIEND -- MURDERED BY RUSSIAN TROOPS?

THIS IS MY BUCHA, UKRAINE BEST FRIEND -- ARE SHE AND TWO TEEN DAUGHTERS ALIVE? ARE YOU ALIVE, N.? N., HERE HAD BEEN MY BEST FRIEND FOR OVER TEN YEARS, AND WITH HER FAMILY, INCLUDING TWO TEEN DAUGHTERS, LIVED A VERY LONG TIME IN THEIR BUCHA, UKRAINE FLAT. WERE N. AND DAUGHTERS MURDERED BY RUSSIANS? WAS THEIR FAMILY FLAT DESTROYED BY SHELLS FIRED BY RUSSIAN PEASANT TROOPS LOOKING FOR NONEXISTANT NAZIS? I NEVER MET A NAZI IN 18 YEARS SCOUIRING UKRAINE. NAZIs IN UKRAINE ARE LARGELY A FICTION. I SAW ON CNN A NEIGHBOR HIGH RISE BUILDIUNG ACROSS THE PLAYGROUND FROM N'S FLAT THAT WAS POUNDED TO RUBBLE BY ARTILLERY.. IT WAS IN A PHOTO OF MINE THAT FEATURED FOUR HAPPY, SMILING KIDS JUMPING INTO THE COMMON PLAYGROUD THERE. I LIVED NEAR MY FRIEND IN BUCHA, AT HER URGING AND WITH HER HELP. MY FLAT WAS A SHORT WALK FROM HERS IN CENTRAL BUCHA. I WITH HER HELP AND AT HER REQUEST, HAD MOVED A SHORT DISTANCE AWAY IN MY OWN FLAT. I MOVED TO BUCHA FROM CENTRALKYIV A STONE'S THROW FROM MAIDAN. IT WAS JUST TOO EXPENSIVE IN CENTRAL KYIV AND I WAS ELATED TO LIVE A SHORT STROLL FROM N.'S FLAT. SHE KEPT MY BUSINESS AND AFFAIRS IN ORDER AND WAS A GREAT FRIEND. WE OFTEN WERE INSEPARABLE. I MET HER ABOUT 14 YEARS AGO WHEN SHE MODELED FOR ME, AND WE BECAME FAST FRIENDS. i HAVE NOT HEARD FROM HER SINCE PRIOR TO THE RUSSIAN INVASION FEB. 24, 2022.THAT DESTROYED MOST OF BUCHA, INCLUDING THE CENTER WHERE SHE AND FAMILY LIVED IN A FLAT. IGNORANT RUSSIAN PEASANT TROOPS MURDERED MORE THAN 900 RESIDENTS IN COLD BLOOD -- RAPING SOME WOMEN FIRST. THE TROOPS AND MUCH OF RUSSIA GULLIBLY SWALLOWED THE LIE THAT UKRAINE WAS FULL OF NAZIS. IN 18 YEARS IN AND AMONG THE RESIDENTS IN VARIOUS UKRAINE CITIES, I ONLY MET ONE PERSON i THOUGHT MIGHT BE A NAZI AND HE WAS A TEEN PLAYING SOLDIER WHO HAD NO IDEA WHAT 'NAZI' MEANT. UKRAINIANS UNIFORMLY HATE THE NAZIS WHO RAVAGED THEIR COUNTRY IN WWIi. iN TWO DAYS IN KYIV AT THE WAR'S OUTSET, NAZIS MURDERED 30,000 OR MORE KYIV CITIZENS; THERE WAS NEVER WAS ANYTHING BUT HATRED FOR THE NAZIS. I FEAR THE RUSSIANS WIPED OUT THESE WONDERFUL PEOPLE. I LIVED IN BUCHA AND ALSO A WHILE IN NEARBY BORZEL [VORZEL] VILLAGE, AT N'S RECOMMENDATION AND WITH HER HELP. WE OFTEN SHOPPED TOGETHER AND OFTEN ATE TOGETHER WITH HER FAMILY. SHE HAS BEEN FAMILY MEMBER, OF CHOICE, NOT BY RELATIONSHIP. (SOMETIMES WE LUCKY ONES GET TO CHOOSE OUR RELATIONS; SHE WAS CLOSER THAN ANY BLOOD RELATIVE.) N. TOOK CARE OF ME AND MY AFFAIRS INCLUDING RENT PAYMENT FOR MY BORZEL AND LATER, BUCHA, FLATS WHEN I WAS TRAVELING IN THE US. SHE TOOK CARE OF ALL MY UKRAINE BUSINESS AND AFFAIRS; ESPECIALLY DURING MY PERIODIC ABSENCES TO THE USA. PREVIOUSLY, I HAD LIVED HALF TIME NEAR MAIDAN IN KYIV JUST BEFORE THE FAMOUS REVOLUTION. I ALSO SPENT UP TO HALF TIME IN THE THE U.S. DURING THE ENTIRE PERIOD. N. IS INCREDIBLY BRIGHT AND NOBODY'S FOOL. WHEN I MET HER, AGE 26, SHE HAD A TRADE SCHOOL EDUCATION , WAS MOTHER OF TWO DAUGTERS AND A HOUSEWIFE AND MODEL. WITHOUT TELLING ANYONE, LATER, SHE ATTENDED UNIVERSITY SECRETLY, AND GRADUATED 1ST OR 2ND IN HER CLASS. SHE HAD TOLD NO ONE OF HER UNIVERSITY STUDIES. LATER, DURING OUR FRIENDSHIP, AND WITHOUT TELLING HER FRIENDS, AFTER SHE RECEIVED THAT SECRET BACHELOR'S DEGREE - SHE SECRETLY RETURNED TO GRAD BUSINESS SCHOOL AND EARNED A MBA DEGEE, ALSO WITHOUT TELLING ANYONE AND AGAIN WAS AT THE TOP OF HER CLASS. SHE HAS DESERVED A WONDERFUL LIFE; SHE EARNED IT. SHE IS -- OR WAS -- A WONDERFUL PERSON AND AN EXAMPLE OF THE BEST OF UKRAINE. I was severely injured in an international airline accident several years ago, and we have been apart as a result of my over $1 million in medical treatment with numerous operations and hospitalizations. ON CNN I SAW THE SHELL OF A NEIGHBOR BUILDING ACROSS THE PARK FROM HER FLAT TOTALLY DESTROYED BY RUSSIAN ARTILLERY. IT SEEMS FRFOM CNN DRONE FOOTAGE THAT WAS THE FATE OF ALL BUCHA, INCLUDING MY FORMER FLAT THERE. HAVE RUSSIAN TROOPS THROWN AWAY HER GIFT TO THE WORLD AND HER NATIVE UKRAINE AND HARMED HER FAMILY I HAVE SURVEYED MY UKRAINE FRIENDS AND NONE HAS HEARD FROM N. iF YOU KNOW HER, OF HER OR HAVE HEARD FROM HER, PLEASE LET ME KNOW. SHE LIVED IN BUCHA, UKRIANE, AND IS THE PRIMARY REASON I LIVED THERE -- AND EARLIER IN NEARBY BORZEL. ON CNN PHOTOS OF NEARBY BUILDINGS THAT APPEAR IN SOME OF MY BUCHA PHOTOS ARE SHOWN NOW SHELLED TO SMITHEREENS BY RUSSIAN ARTILLERY. VERY LIOKELY HER BUILDING ALSO HAS BEEN DESTROYED. i WISH TO KNOW IF ANYONE KNOWS WHAT HAS BECOME OF THIS LONG-TERM BEST FRIEND. PLEASE CONTACT ME IF YOU HAVE HEARD OF OR FROM HER OR KNOW ANYTHING AT ALL THAT COULD HELP MY SEARCH. N. IF YOU SEE THIS, PLEASE CONTACT ME OR ONE OF OUR MUTUAL FRIENDS. LET US KNOW HOW WE CAN HELP YOU. John (Crosley)