Special Envoy to Dnipro
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At the foot of Orthodox crosses that line up as far as the eye can see, the soldiers were buried in the ground.
Each grave is adorned with a Ukrainian flag.
The whole forms a yellow and blue cloud that floats above this windswept plain.
A large city in central Ukraine, Dnipro has become a rear base where the army engaged in the Donbass treats its most seriously wounded.
The Krasnopilske Military Cemetery, on the outskirts of the city, is the final resting place of soldiers originally from the city.
But it also welcomes those who could not be buried at home, either because their region is occupied by the Russians, or because the remains could not be recognized.
At the foot of a cross buried under flowers, Vytaly crouched down smoking.
He pulls out a few wilted clumps and pulls out couch grass which is already beginning to sprout on the ground.
The soldier, blond with a youthful face, got a day's leave to visit his cousin...
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