Cemetery of fallen soldiers in Kyiv, Ukraine

Images of soldiers, blue and yellow Ukrainian national flags and flowers lie on graves of soldiers killed within one year of combat with Russian forces, on the Lisove cemetery in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine on February 21, 2023. Families and friends of the killed serviceman leave the flags a patriotic act. As the full scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian forces approaches its first anniversary the casualty rate is very hight, though the exact numbers are unknown. A minimum of 13 thousand Ukrainian soldiers lost their lives