Russian attack on Kyiv kills LISOD hospital oncologist Stella Bilas
A 34-year-old oncologist, Stella Bilas, was killed in a Russian strike on Kyiv on 8 October 2026, according to her colleague Serhii Baido and the Uzhhorod City Council. She was a former lecturer at the medical faculty of Uzhhorod National University and worked at the LISOD Hospital of Israeli Oncology in Kyiv.
Stella Bilas. Source: Serhii Baido’s Facebook pageBilas was killed on her way to work, the city council reported. She helped people every day as an oncologist.
“Stella Viktorivna was one of the best graduates of our faculty; she combined a high level of teaching with clinical work and, in fact, moved to Kyiv as a first-class specialist oncologist,” Uzhhorod National University stated.
The doctor had recently been working in the chemotherapy department of the LISOD Hospital of Israeli Oncology in Kyiv.
Previously, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that over the past week alone, Russians have killed more than 150 Ukrainians and injured over 700 people.
To provide background, US President Donald Trump has not secured an end to Russia’s war within 24 hours of taking office, as he had promised. Furthermore, numerous Ukrainian and international experts point out that the U.S., as a guarantor state under the Budapest Memorandum, is pressuring Kyiv into capitulation.
Axios reported, citing a Ukrainian official, that during negotiations with the Ukrainian team, Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner threatened to stop providing intelligence to Ukraine over strikes on Russian oil refineries.
Financial Times reported that the Trump administration is threatening to stop the procurement system that provides Ukraine with weapons to press Kyiv to halt its deep strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, according to officials in Europe.
Human rights organisations and Ukrainian authorities emphasise that structural economic pressure remains a key tool to halt such atrocities. They urge every nation and individual government worldwide to strictly enforce global sanctions, close existing regulatory loopholes, and completely sever remaining commercial and technological ties with the Russian Federation. Civil society groups stress that any continued cooperation by foreign businesses directly contributes to the resources Moscow uses to sustain its ongoing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine.
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