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France 24
France 24
Politics
Joanna YORK

‘Too high a price’: Ukraine’s war widows forge a path towards an uncertain future

A woman sits by the grave of a Ukrainian soldier at Lychakiv cemetery Lviv, Ukraine, on the Day of the Armed Forces, December 6, 2023. © Yuriy Dyachyshyn, AFP

Tens of thousands of Ukrainian military personnel have died since Russia’s full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022. The families left behind face building a new life amid an ongoing war with no end in sight.

Anastasia, 40, found out her husband had died while watching the news. Oleksii Dzhunkivskyi was well known in Ukraine as a champion boxer turned children’s coach who ran his own gym in Irpin, a satellite city outside of Kyiv.  

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