On Friday, emergency workers started clearing space from a wooded area beside the Hroza village cemetery to make room for all the newly dead.
Family members and friends attend the joint funeral of Tеtiana and Mykola Androsovych held at the cemetery in Hroza, Ukraine on Oct. 7. HROZA, Ukraine — The husband and wife were placed in identical coffins, each covered in green velvet and then draped in blue and gold cloth.
On Friday, emergency workers started clearing space from a wooded area beside the village’s cemetery to make room for all the newly dead. By Saturday, more than 20 empty graves sat waiting. Their son, Dmytro, had chosen their burial spot in the cemetery with relatives the day before. His sister, Katerina, who arrived Saturday from Slovakia, wept by her parents’ tombs. She told reporters she had spoken to her mother Thursday morning and that she had promised to get back in touch after attending the funeral and reception for Andriy Kozyr, a local soldier. “But you see, she never called me back,” the daughter said.
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