A day after waking up to explosions, the village of Starychi buries a soldier
CBC
In the small village next to a military facility where bombs hit Sunday there is both fear, and grief.
After being woken the previous morning by explosions, on Monday, the people of Starychi, Ukraine, were burying a beloved physical education teacher and soldier.
Sergey Kulik, a 55-year-old grandfather and father of two, died in Kyiv of a bullet wound on March 3.
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Starychi is just 20 kilometres from the Polish border and at the gate of the military base where the first bombs fell in Western Ukraine, killing at least 35, according to a local official.
About 3,000 live in the village. Hundreds came to Kulik's funeral.
His son-in-law Andriy Karvatsky said Kulik was among the first called to go to fight in the country's capital because of his experience with the military in Ukraine's "anti-terrorist operation" in the Donbas region in 2014.
"Everything was good but now death has caught him," he said.
"He died as a real warrior. He was cheerful. We will miss him."
Karvatsky pushed a two-month-old baby in a stroller, the grandson his father-in-law will not be around to see grow up. His wife, he says, is stressed by the wartime death of her father.
On the street in Shklo, a neighbouring village, people kneeled at the side of the road as Kulik's coffin was driven past, placing candles on the edge of the curb in front of them. It is standard for the village from which dozens have died in Ukraine's many conflicts dating back before the First World War.
None of those approached by a CBC News crew in Shklo knew him personally but said they had come to pay their respects, calling Kulik their defender. However, fear grips the region, and many did not want to provide their last names.
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