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Four white coffins – one slightly smaller than the others – were laid into a family grave in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Friday. Dressed in black, with cuts across his face, Yaroslav Bazylevych looked on as the caskets containing his wife and three daughters were lowered into the pit, then covered with dirt and buried. Hundreds of people came out onto the streets of the city for the ceremony, which was followed across the nation. The four women – Yevgenia, 43 and her children, Yaryna, Daryna and Emilia, aged 21, 18 and seven – were killed on Wednesday in a Russian missile strike on t…

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