When Kateryna Dembovska’s husband went missing in action in May last year, she was told all that was left of him and his unit was one body and two black bags in a Mykolaiv morgue.
According to his brigade, Volodymyr Dembovskyi, a gunner in a motorised infantry company, was burned alive in a Russian artillery strike on a village in southern Ukraine.
Fellow soldiers, including their commander, were unable to save him and six other soldiers as their building was engulfed in flames, relatives were told.
