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Ukraine: Unbroken

Ukraine: Unbroken. April 19, 2022, Irpin, Ukraine: 'I don't want to live with hate in my heart' said Svetlana Kostyantyn about the Russian soldiers that killed her husband as police exhume his body from a makeshift grave in their backyard in Irpin. Kostrya Kostyantyn, father of her child, love of her life. Taken away in an instant by a Russian snipers bullet as he was walking through a park to deliver food to an elderly neighbor. When his brother rushed to help, he too was gunned down. He was taken to a morgue far away in Vyshegrad for forensics since all the morgues in the vicinity were full. February 24, 2022 Russia invaded Ukraine. 300+ days of violence. Countless war crimes, civilian massacres, rape, children and their pets. Destroying civilian buildings, hospitals, schools, nuclear power plants, and churches. Death 12,000+ civilians, 500+ child deaths. Bucha 50 civilians executed. (Credit Image: © Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wire)

Ukraine: Unbroken

Ukraine: Unbroken. April 19, 2022, Irpin, Ukraine: 'I don't want to live with hate in my heart' said Svetlana Kostyantyn about the Russian soldiers that killed her husband as police exhume his body from a makeshift grave in their backyard in Irpin. Kostrya Kostyantyn, father of her child, love of her life. Taken away in an instant by a Russian snipers bullet as he was walking through a park to deliver food to an elderly neighbor. When his brother rushed to help, he too was gunned down. He was taken to a morgue far away in Vyshegrad for forensics since all the morgues in the vicinity were full. February 24, 2022 Russia invaded Ukraine. 300+ days of violence. Countless war crimes, civilian massacres, rape, children and their pets. Destroying civilian buildings, hospitals, schools, nuclear power plants, and churches. Death 12,000+ civilians, 500+ child deaths. Bucha 50 civilians executed. (Credit Image: © Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wire)