Russian missile leaves widow with just one memento of late husband

Vera Kosolopenko, reacts outside her destroyed house, after it was hit during Russian bombing, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the village of Berzuky, Derhachi district, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, May 14, 2022. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes

BEZRUKY, Ukraine (Reuters) - The Russian missile turned Vera Kosolopenko’s small home into a fiery pyre that consumed the bible and all of the other precious mementoes that she cherished of her late husband.

“I have lost everything that connected me to him,” she wept on Saturday as she stood by the smoldering remains of the house destroyed by the missile a day earlier. “All I have left is the portrait engraved on his gravestone.”