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.

Getty A 95-year-old woman — who had survived the Nazi invasion of Ukraine, the Chernobyl disaster and the ... according to a 2020 profile from The New York Times. There, she met her husband ...

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 ...