Yevgeniya Kolesnichenko and Svitlana Povar’s lives changed after their husbands were killed at war, motivating them to join the war effort and Ukraine's defence forces. Kolesnichenko is now a medic and Povar an artillerist. "My husband used to say that we have to pass on our faith in God, love for country, the gift of mercy to our children -- and not war. We have to end it, not our children," says Povar, who's husband Semyen was killed around Vugledar.

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