Annie Lewis Marffy, 69, traveled from Silverton, Devon, to Ukraine in late May with supplies packed in a green Toyota Rav4 as part of Aid Ukraine UK and arrived on 4 June. She reportedly suffered fatal injuries in a Russian drone strike on 11 June near Kramatorsk in the Donbas. Her body remains in an area of active hostilities, preventing recovery and forensic examination. Relatives have requested a death certificate from local authorities or the FCDO to enable grieving and probate, but certification could take months or years given unrecoverable remains. The family reports disappointment with FCDO and police responses; sons lack power of attorney.
Annie Lewis Marffy, 69, travelled from her home in Silverton, near Exeter, Devon, in late May to deliver supplies packed into a green Toyota Rav4 in a mission arranged by the non-profit organisation Aid Ukraine UK. Lewis Marffy was to take the vehicle in convoy with a British volunteer to Kramatorsk in the contested Donbas region. Lewis Marffy arrived in Ukraine on 4 June and reportedly sustained injuries incompatible with life in a Russian drone strike on the morning of 11 June, according to a police file.
The Kramatorsk district police department said her body remains in an area of active hostilities, making it impossible to conduct evacuation measures to transfer the body to the forensic medical examination department. Based on this information, her relatives have asked for a death certificate to be issued either through local authorities or the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). They said this would allow them to grieve properly for the brave, capable and determined mother of three and begin the probate process.
She described the area where the volunteer was allegedly killed as a kill zone. It leaves her family in a horrible red-tape limbo, she said. They will never get her body. But what they need is the ability to close her affairs. Her sons have their hands tied; they don't have power of attorney. The family said: All the family, the sisters and the sons, have been very disappointed at the reaction of the FCDO and the lack of response from the police.
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