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Ukrainians bury their fallen soldiers

A sea of Ukrainian flags mark the graves of the fallen at Kharkiv's cemetery N°18. The cemetery, at Bezliudivka, on the outskirts of Ukraine's second city, has had a military section for several years.

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Ukrainians bury its fallen soldiers

And a few minutes later, the fifth funeral of the day started.

The mother of the fallen soldier, wept inconsolably over her son's coffin, held up by members of her family, as the rain began to fall.

Another woman, probably his wife, was also weeping.

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Ukrainians bury its fallen soldiers

Then the coffin was lowered into the ground, each mourner threw a fistful of earth into the grave before the cemetery workers filled it in and planted a wooden cross with the name of the dead soldiers.

Behind that grave, a line of Ukrainian flags flapped in the wind, one for each grave.