Ukrainian soldier Volodymyr Kerbut died in Soledar and was laid to relaxation in Bucha, his life and dying linked to 2 of the bloodiest scenes because the Russian invasion of Ukraine started.
He was 46 years outdated and served 25 years as a policeman earlier than voluntarily enlisting when the conflict started.
Weeks later the streets of Bucha have been affected by civilian corpses.
In close by Soledar, a handful of Volodymyr's comrades have been holding out as finest they may in opposition to an onslaught by the Russian military and Wagner mercenaries.
Moscow says town has fallen, Ukraine denies the declare.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, guarantees to do every little thing potential to forestall Soledar and the neighbouring Bakhmut from falling into the fingers of an enemy that appears able to take the cities at any value.
Bakhmut is one other metropolis that has been on the coronary heart of a grinding struggle between Russian and Ukrainian forces prior to now few months.
At a well being centre within the metropolis, Dr Elena Molchanova ushers sufferers right into a slender workplace warmed by a wood-burning range, the place she fingers out remedy and fills in dying certificates.
Typically her guests, the final remaining residents within the city shelled day by day and lower from important companies, are simply searching for shelter from the biting chilly.
The 40-year-old physician is one in every of simply 5 left in Bakhmut who at the moment are a lifeline to the some 8,000 folks native officers say are nonetheless within the metropolis that was house to 70,000.
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