The girls were dressed in wedding dresses for their burial, a custom in Ukraine for girls who die too young to marry. Read more at straitstimes.com.
this week, a mother sat still on Friday, resting a pale hand on the head of each of her two dead twin daughters.when a Russian missile hit a pizza restaurant in the eastern city on Tuesday evening. They had been in the vicinity of the restaurant during the attack.
Three days later, the middle-aged mother of the twins looked completely drained of vitality as she sat by the graves of her daughters in a black leather jacket. Initially unable to find two wedding dresses in a city not far from the front and where wedding parlours are closed, friends and family issued an online appeal for well-wishers to donate two dresses so that the girls could be buried.
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