A woman lays flowers on a grave in one of the rows reserved for soldiers in the cemetery in Sumy. — Photos: AFP
At a funeral home in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy, Svitlana Ostapenko paced around as she prepared the dead for their final journey.
After five years of working in the funeral home, she was used to seeing dead bodies, but the growing number of dead – including young people from Russia’s invasion – was starting to overwhelm even her.
