The St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery in the heart of the Ukrainian capital is where Kyiv mourns its soldiers and its prominent dead, the casualties of a war Russia began more than four years ago. On Tuesday, it held two white coffins, side by side, bearing the bodies of two girls.
Liubava Yakovlieva was 12. Her sister, Vira, was 17. They were killed when a Russian missile tore through their Kyiv apartment building on May 14, burying them under rubble. Twenty-four people were killed in the strike.
