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Heavy toll Brightest and bravest mourned

There are funerals every day in Kyiv, but this one felt particularly poignant. Hundreds of friends and fellow activists, clad in Ukrainian flags, gathered last Saturday to pay tribute to Roman Ratushnyi, a prominent political and environmental campaigner who was killed fighting near Ukraine’s second-biggest city, Kharkiv.

“All our brightest, bravest guys are dying. The war’s toll on society is immense,” said activist Ivana Sanina, 23,

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