Please click on the images for glimpses of Ukrainians paying their last respects to their fallen heroes.
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IMAGE: A picture of Evgeny Khrapko, a combat medic and instructor of tactical medicine who was killed on a mission, is pictured on his grave in Kharkiv, June 14, 2022.
Photograph: Ivan Alvarado/Reuters
IMAGE: Evgeny Khrapko's farewell ceremony.
Photograph: Ivan Alvarado/Reuters
IMAGE: A Ukrainian soldier throws sand into Evgeny Khrapko's grave.
Photograph: Ivan Alvarado/Reuters
IMAGE: A priest seen at Mykhailo Tereshchenko's funeral in Kyiv, June 14, 2022.
Mykhailo Tereshchenko was killed in the Donbas region.
Photograph: Marko Djurica/Reuters
IMAGE: Senior Lieutenant Ruslan Skalsky's coffin is carried by soldiers in Lviv, June 11, 2022.
Ruslan Skalsky died on June 4 in Russian artillery shelling near the settlement of Velyke Artakove, Mykolaiv region.
Photograph: Pavlo Palamarchuk/Reuters
IMAGE: Mourners at Ruslan Skalsky's funeral.
Photograph: Pavlo Palamarchuk/Reuters
IMAGE: Grief as Ruslan Skalsky is laid to rest.
Photograph: Pavlo Palamarchuk/Reuters
IMAGE: Mourners in Kyiv, June 11, 2022, at the funerals of Ukrainian soldiers Oleksandr Synelnikov, Ihor Snitkin and Serhii Malets.
Photograph: Vladyslav Musiienko/Reuters
IMAGE: Victoria, Senior (First) Lieutenant Vasyl Herych's wife, grieves for her husband at his funeral in Perechyn, Zakarpattia region, June 8, 2022.
Vasyl Herych, 31, was a member of Ukraine's 15th Separate Mountain Assault Battalion.
Photograph: Serhii Hudak/Reuters
IMAGE: Ukrainian soldiers kneel for a fallen comrade as Vasyl Herych's funeral procession makes its way to the cemetry.
Photograph: Serhii Hudak/Reuters
Photographs curated by Manisha Kotian/Rediff.com
Feature Presentation: Ashish Narsale/Rediff.com