Mayya Gil had been walking across Cropsey Avenue in front of her apartment in Bensonhurst near 24th Avenue around 12:40 p.m.

A 95-year-old woman, Mayya Gil, who survived significant historical events, died after being struck by a truck in Brooklyn.

After the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, thousands of people were forced to leave their homes and abandon their pets. Among these left-behind animals were dogs, which formed a unique and resilient ...

She fled to Kyiv with her mother and brother when she was 12 years old, according to a 2020 profile from The New York Times. When the Chernobyl disaster happened in 1986, several of Gil's other ...