Heartbroken Ukranians More Open To Ceding Territory for Sake of Peace

‘Young people are dying. Human life is the most precious thing,’ a school teacher tells the Sun.

Clara Preve Durrieu
A makeshift memorial in Kyiv’s Maidan Square pays tribute to the soldiers that have been killed in combat. Clara Preve Durrieu

KYIV— Serhii Kovalenko recently buried two of his young students who were killed in a battle. He now smiles as he watches his 5-year-old daughter play in the sandbox in the park — something he can do on a Thursday morning as his school is in summer recess. In the back of his mind, he is thinking about another student who is fighting for his life in the hospital after being injured on the frontline. 

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