'Time does not heal. You just get used to it...and that pain just becomes a part of you,' said Daria Mazur, who learned of her husband's death from graphic photos of his corpse posted on Russian media. Ukraine's war widows describe losing their partners:
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"I was sure he would call or find some way to congratulate me. But I had had a very bad dream and I already knew something was wrong," she told AFP in Kyiv wearing black and holding her two-year-old son Viktor.More than one year after Moscow invaded, Slyshyk is among a growing number of women widowed by Russian forces and left to count the cost of Ukraine's determination to hold out and push Moscow's invasion back.
"They will remain forever at battle. But they live on in the memory of their relatives," he said, greeting mourning women and their children one by one. Daria Mazur, 41, said she learned of her husband's death in 2014 from graphic pictures of his bloodied corpse published on Russian media after fierce fighting with Kremlin-backed separatists.He was killed while withdrawing from Ilovaisk, an infamous and costly chapter of the conflict for Ukraine that saw hundreds killed that August as Kyiv troops pulled back in the face of advancing pro-Russian forces.
She said her final conversations with her husband, Pavlo, who was 30 when he was killed, betrayed a sense of foreboding. He knew the situation was precarious. Borkun said that while the government offers financial and psychological support, she wanted to go a step further.
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