KIEV, 29 January – On Sunday, mourners in Kyiv held a tearful memorial service for a British volunteer who died while attempting to rescue someone from the eastern Ukrainian village of Soledar.
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The memorial service was organized in honor of British volunteer aid worker Andrew Bagshaw and Chris Parry, both of whom were killed while attempting to evacuate relief workers from eastern Ukraine, according to Parry’s family.
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Several dozen mourners crammed into a tiny church on the grounds of Kyiv’s historic St. Sophia cathedral for a service conducted by an Orthodox priest, including other volunteers who knew Bagshaw and those who came to offer their sympathies.
Nearly two weeks after Russian troops claimed to have taken control of the little salt-mining town, Ukraine finally admitted on Wednesday that it had withdrew.
“I remember one of the first times when we went (on an evacuation run) together. He was a very quiet person, he just wanted to help people,” volunteer Ignat Ivlev-Yorke, organiser Bagshaw’s memorial service, said to Reuters.
“He felt that this was his mission. That he had a duty to do it.”
According to Bagshaw’s relatives, according to Sky News, the volunteers died while attempting to save an elderly woman from the town of Soledar. The two men, according to Ukrainian authorities, were reported missing on January 7.
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