Funeral for Ukraine army volunteer killed in Bakhmut

(13 Feb 2023)
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Kniazhychi, Ukraine - 13 February 2023
1. Various of Ukrainian Armed Forces volunteer Oleksandr Maksymenko's funeral
2. Close of Roza Maksymenko, wife of Oleksandr Maksymenko
3. Wide of mourners
4. Close of soldier holding cross with Maksymenko's name
5. Various of Roza Maksymenko crying over her husband's body
6. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Margarita Mahomedova, 45, Kniazhychi resident:
"He is not only a son a father and a friend. He was so decent - a true man and a warrior.
7. Various of Maksymenko's funeral
8. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Margarita Mahomedova, 45, Kniazhychi resident:
"No matter what, I can't believe what is going on. The year has passed, but it changes nothing. We didn't believe that the war was started then, just as we can't believe that it is happening now, and taking away so many lives."
9. Various of funeral
10. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Mykola (no surname given), Kniazhychi resident:
"I have nothing to be afraid of. We're going to kill them - what else have we left to do? They fight us and we fight back, kill them. We were brothers and you see..."
11. Various of funeral
12. Close of Roza Maksymenko crying and holding Ukrainian flag
STORYLINE:
Mourners gathered on Monday for the funeral of a Ukrainian Armed Forces volunteer who was killed in Bakhmut.
Oleksandr Maksymenko was buried in his home-village, Kniazhychi, a few miles east from Kyiv.
Fierce battles raged outside Bakhmut as Russian forces pressed their advance on the eastern city with heavy shelling and infantry attacks, Ukraine's presidential office said Monday, with at least five civilians killed and as many wounded in action across the war-torn country in the last 24 hours.
The presidential office said the situation in Bakhmut's northern suburb of Paraskoviivka is “difficult" as Russian forces continued to pummel the area with “intense shelling and storming actions."
The nearby town of Vuhledar is also under heavy bombardment.
AP Video by Srdjan Nedeljkovic
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Pointless war

[@Sovoko65]

They are dying for Usa and western dying hegemony.

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They are not fighting for Ukraine
They are fighting for criminal Zelensky.

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Unfortunately they can be influenced by a puppet installed by the west. It is ok but to die for him is mind boggling.

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