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Emily Clark in Lviv with photography by Brendan Esposito

Ukraine mourns fallen soldiers and civilians and warns 'this is the price' of not closing the sky

In the western Ukrainian village of Verkhnya Bilka, the first local hero killed in Russia's war is being laid to rest and, as is the custom, the community will join a procession to honour him, to pray for his resurrection and to help his family say goodbye.

Bogdan Lazar, 51, was one of 35 people killed last Sunday when a Russian air strike hit a military training base in Yavoriv, just 20 kilometres from Poland.

The war hadn't been this far west, and the attack sent a signal nowhere in the country was safe.

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