The funeral of the 11-year-old maxim and his parents in catfish

In catfish, a city in the northeast of Ukraine, life stood. Literally. Rockets fell where people celebrated, where the children ran with willow branches. 35 people were killed. But it was the story of one family that made even sirens overdone.

Maksym Martynenko was 11 years old. He liked playing football, he studied well, he was the apple of his parents’ head – Natalia and Mykoła. It was supposed to be an ordinary Sunday, maybe even joyful. Instead, there was a darkness that knows no mercy. Because war does not distinguish a soldier from a child.

The funeral of the victims of the attack in catfish. Among them an 11-year-old boy

On Wednesday, April 16, a funeral took place. Family coffins were placed side by side in the church in the center of Sum. Someone put the ball on the boy’s coffin. Someone else’s teddy bear. As if Maksym was about to get up and ask: « Are we going home? »

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The crowd followed the coffins. Everyone knew that it was not only a funeral of one family. This is a symbol of war hell.

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A common grave for the whole family. One rocket – three life.