Negative media coverage of Ukraine's veterans can take a toll. (c) Sergii Kharchenko/ABACA/PA Images. All rights reserved.
Ukrainians will never know most of their names. In Kharkiv, one of them had just celebrated his 23rd birthday with friends. In the stairwell of the apartment block he lived in with his family, holding a grenade, he took his own life.
In Kyiv, a 55-year-old man called his son to tell him to be a good son. The next day in a park in Kyiv he took his own life. He’d left a note. “It’s nobody’s fault. Simply put, nobody needs me,” it read.
