The Memory Wall of the Fallen Defenders of Ukraine, created in 2014, has been updated over the past decade to honour victims of Ukraine's wars against Russia. Grieving family members have been placing hundreds of personal photos on the memorial.
Yuri Pisarenko reaches high up on the Memory Wall of the Fallen Defenders of Ukraine, pulls down a faded portrait of his grandson and reverently puts an identical photo in its place.The wall, created in 2014, has been updated over the past decade to honour victims of Ukraine's wars against Russia. While the original panels were neatly structured with orderly military pictures, that changed after the beginning of the Russian invasion in February of last year.
The memory wall has become a focal point in the war with Russia. U.S. President Joe Biden recently visited the wall, as did Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who laid a wreath at the site. "When world leaders come to Kyiv, they come here ... and spend a few moments in that same space of loss and tragedy and horror."
"I saw that his picture has faded, so next time I will bring a new photo," she says through an interpreter as she wipes away a tear.She says this year Father's Day is going to be extra difficult for their two daughters, ages 10 and 6.
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