Fourteen-year-olds Anna and Yuliia Aksenchenko were among 12 people who were killed when a Russian missile hit a pizza restaurant in the eastern city on Tuesday evening.
On Friday morning, the family held a mourning ceremony for them at their apartment several hundred metres away from the site.
She sat motionless with one hand on each daughter for half an hour, her body slumped and her head bowed.
[1/4]Oleh and Olha Aksenchenko react during the funeral of their 14-year-old twin daughters Anna and Yuliia, killed in a restaurant by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kramatorsk, Ukraine June 30, 2023.
Mourners said the girls had been dressed in wedding dresses for their burial, a custom in Ukraine for girls who die too young to marry.
Persons:
Anna, Yuliia Aksenchenko, Aksenchenko, Yuliia, Oleksandr Ratushniak, Viktoria Kushka, Kushka, Tom Balmforth
Organizations:
REUTERS, Thomson
Locations:
KRAMATORSK, Ukraine, Ukraine's, Kramatorsk, Russian