
Oksana, mother of Oleh Skybyk, 27, morns the death of her son at his funeral at Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv on 28 April 2022. Oleh, who volunteered to serve in the military at the start of the war, was killed in an artillery attack in Popasne region in eastern Ukraine on 24 April, leaving behind his wife and two children (aged three and one). Tens of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians have died since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, with an estimated 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers killed, according to the Ukrainian government
Photograph: Kiran Ridley
