On a sloping hillside, two men who died hundreds of miles apart were buried next to each other.
Bohdan Didukh, 34, was killed by a mine last week on the front lines of the Zaporizhzhia region of southern Ukraine, where the first stages of Ukraine’s counteroffensive have begun.
Image Olena Didukh, lower center, and Oksana Didukh, right, the wife and mother, respectively, of Ukrainian soldier Bohdan Didukh, mourn during his funeral in Lviv, Ukraine.
Image Grave diggers following the burial of Bohdan Didukh and Oleh Didukh.
Credit... Brendan Hoffman for The New York TimesAt the cemetery, Olena Didukh, the wife of Bohdan Didukh, fainted momentarily, overwhelmed by grief and the afternoon sun.
Persons:
Bohdan Didukh, Oleh Didukh, Peter, Paul, Olena, Oksana Didukh, Brendan Hoffman, Olena Didukh, Kateryna Havrylenko, “, ”, Daria Mitiuk
Organizations:
Paul Garrison Church, The New York Times, Catholic
Locations:
LVIV, Ukraine, Ukrainian, Lviv, Russia, Zaporizhzhia