On April 11, along the avenue of the heroes, it borders the fixed cemetery in Kryvy Rih, an important industrial city and mining basin in southern Ukraine, almost 1,000 Ukrainian flags passed over high as many tombs of men and women at the beginning of 2022. The flags sink into the threat sky of 31 years They gathered around the people of the 31 -year -old couple. The Ukrainian artistic avant -garde, killed on April 5 by a drone. The hometown of the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zensky, was mourning again, only days later, a missile strike on April 4 killed 20 people, including nine children, in a patio of recreation between two apartment buildings.
A letter that is cleaned in the sky stopped the rain. As part of the orthodox funeral rite, Polyvinko’s loved ones gently put their hands on their exposed face. Other kneeling. A soldier with a shaved head and a lost look clung to the sides of the ceremonial coffin, as if Polovinko were helping him not falling. The Ukrainian flag and the pile of flowers placed on it, the enchantments of the priest, the emotion shared by the artists gathered and the boring sound of honorary shots were reminders that the country had just lost a unique presence.
The day before, in the kitchen of the red brick house where she grew up, her mother, Larissa Polovinko, a small woman with dark and visiting eyes, remembered “a child as obedient as rebellious who loved to draw from a young woman.” On April 5, it was a call from the Kryvy Rih recruitment center that reported the death of his daughter. “I tried to convince her not to get ready, she replied:” Who will protect you if I do not? “You couldn’t stop her, she would put you before the consummate.”
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