“She was like a big sister to all of us – just a very cool, modern lady.”

— Ksenia Khirvonina, public relations manager at SE Ranking, an SEO software company with offices in Palo Alto, London, Moscow, Minsk, Belarus, Kyiv, Ukraine, where Russian shelling last week killed chief finance officer Tetiana Perebyinis, 43, and her two children, Alisa, 9, and Mykyta, 18 as they fled.