Editor’s Note: The following is the first in a series of reports by the Kyiv Independent about the memorialization of Ukraine’s fallen soldiers. “I’m up for cremation,” Kostiantyn “Kostia” Yuzviuk wrote in a list of funeral requests in his newly created Telegram channel for friends in November 2022 – months before he volunteered to the Ukrainian army. “I wouldn’t like to occupy the territory for no reason with my coffin. Besides, one day there will be another war, and it will be difficult for our guys to dig trenches in our bones,” he wrote in case his family would have to face his death. Yuzv…
