After two months of war and exhumation of hundreds of bodies, Ukrainian families are finding their missing and the deceased are making their journeys home. Some are receiving the first dignified burials of their afterlives.
A family holds a burial service for 43-year-old Andriy Voznenko, who was taken from the village of Ozera by Russian soldiers on March 21. Nadia Voznenko, a black veil tied around her head, stepped over trash left by Russian soldiers to receive the body.
In communities outside Kyiv, during Russia’s failed bid to take the capital, soldiers slaughtered civilians in their cars, executed them in their kitchens and suffocated them in their basements.and in houses were often buried in hastily dug graves by people who were complete strangers. That had an unintended consequence: There was no way to contact the families to tell them which garden or random patch of earth held their loved ones.
Chayka drove the 20 minutes back to Ozera to deliver the news, then returned to the morgue. One man complained that he had been waiting weeks to take his son’s body. Another man, distraught, tugged at the door handle. It was locked.There are differing theories as to why Andriy was abducted, but they both stem from the same basic premise: He was too visible.Stout and brown-eyed, he was a divorced father who delivered fish in his truck before the invasion.
Being outside more often than most people in Ozera may have raised the soldiers’ suspicions, and those may have been further heightened when Andriy was injured by shrapnel during a mortar shelling, Boiko said. Andriy’s sister thinks he was going to get medical attention when the soldiers saw him bleeding. They started to help him — until they saw the tattoo on his chest. Given all the Russian propaganda that Ukraine was rife with Nazis, she wonders whether they thought he was an extremist.
His body was exhumed on April 11. Yet it would take 17 more days for him to return home, steps away from where his mother had pleaded with him to stay to avoid Russian entanglements. Over and over, she asked a single question before his casket made its way to the church.The gravediggers stood off to the side, leaning on their shovels, as Andriy’s body arrived. It was a particularly busy day in a particularly busy week, with seven people buried in two days. None had open caskets.
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