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epa11267018 Comrades of late Ukrainian servicemen Serhii Konoval and Taras Petryshyn lay the Ukrainian national flag over their coffins during a farewell ceremony at Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti) in Kyiv, Ukraine, 09 April 2024. Serhii Konoval, call sign 'Nord', and Taras Petryshyn, call sign 'Chimera', formerly activists in the 2014 anti-government protests in Ukraine, were serving in the 67th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces when they were killed in action in Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region, amid the ongoing Russian invasion. EPA/SERGEY DOLZHENKO