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Ukraine war saga unfolds across the lives of five friends

Anna Korostenska (right) says Anastasiia Okhrimenko (left) understands her like no-one else after the loss they have suffered. (AP: Daniel Cole)

In the cemetery where Oleksii Zavadskyi and Yurii Stiahliuk are buried, the women they loved take drags on the men's favourite brands of cigarettes. Clouds of smoke are exhaled in silence.

An intimate ritual when the men were still alive — at the end of the day, when it was just the two of them — it is now a sombre tradition carried on by Anastasiia Okhrimenko and Anna Korostenska after their deaths.

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