We know the big picture: Russian and Ukraine are fighting for land inside Ukraine. But in the most beleaguered places, areas of conflict going back to 2014, what exactly is there left to fight for? Yan Boechat has this photo gallery from Siversk, Ukraine, where loved ones are buried in gardens and fields because the local cemetery is inside the battle zone.
In Pictures: Siversk, Ukraine Battleground Town
- By Yan Boechat
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At the gardens of the local hospital, residents created a graveyard. They say the cemetery is too close to the front lines and it is impossible to take their dead for a proper funeral, April 4, 2023.
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A bomb opened a little crater near the makeshift cemetery at the gardens of the local hospital in Siversk, April 4, 2023.