‘The hardest thing is to bury young men’: Lviv’s grave labour of love
As more and more Ukrainians die, staff at the Lychakiv cemetery are trading their tools for spades
30 March 2022 - 18:40
On a warm March day that has all the signs of early spring in the northern hemisphere, three burly men lift their shovels from a truck and begin covering a row of fresh graves with sand...
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