Funeral of a fallen soldier in Kyiv, Ukraine

Friends and family throw soil into the grave during the funeral of Evgeny Yakovlev, 42, a soldier killed by Russian forces on eastern Ukrainian front in a combat, on the Lisove Cemetery in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Lisove Cemetery is were most of fallen army-men from Kiev are buried. As the full scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian forces continuous, the fight in the East of Ukraine causes very high casualty rate, though the exact numbers are unknown. Ukraine prepares for a spring offensive to retake the land occupied by Russia