Russian soldiers' families bury their dead in Ukraine. The funeral ceremony was carried out with automatic weapons salutations and military brass bands on Friday (8//2022). This came a day after the Kremlin admitted for the first time that it had lost a large number of troops.
Citing Reuters, Russia sent tens of thousands of troops to Ukraine on February 24 in what it called a "special operation".
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that the loss was a "huge tragedy for us."
In the southern garrison town of Vladikavkaz, near the Caucasus mountains, relatives gathered for the funeral of Vitaly Dyadyushko, one of two soldiers buried on Friday in the Vostochnoe city cemetery.
A crying woman dressed in black kisses the face of a soldier, who is lying in an open coffin, flanked by soldiers in uniform holding rifles.
A Russian Orthodox priest waves incense over a coffin.
Dyadyushko, who is from the nearby settlement of Arkhonskaya, is survived by four sisters and a mother, local leader Alexander Kusey said.
"She's from a big family, and she's the only breadwinner in the family. I don't know how the girls are without her now, she's helped a lot," she said.
He added, "He wasn't married, he didn't have a chance, he was young, very young. It's a shame when the young died prematurely."
As the coffin was lowered to the ground, a military brass band played the national anthem and an honor guard fired a salute with automatic weapons.
Shortly after, mourners gathered for another funeral, namely 41-year-old Ruslan Kozayev. An old woman, crying, gently touched her face.
Elsewhere still in the same cemetery area, more than 20 new graves for soldiers who died in Ukraine are visible.
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