People who came to St. Mikolaj’s, in the village of Staryj Sambir, near the Polish-Ukrainian border, on Sunday (23 February) to bury their hero listened to an appeal for national unity from the pulpit.
Bohdan Solchanyk, a 29-year old academic, had been shot in Kiev last week.
The depth of feeling in the region was on show in the candles, lit in red jars, which had been placed at 20 or 30-metre intervals along the entire length of the 100-km road from Lviv.
The crowd of 1,5...
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