India, Aug. 9 -- Ukraine on Saturday paid tribute to Oleksiy Yukov, a Ukrainian volunteer who spent more than two decades searching for, recovering and returning the remains of civilians and soldiers killed in war. Many of the bodies he recovered were those of Russian soldiers. Yukov was 40 when he died. He was killed on Wednesday in a landmine explosion while taking part in a mission to recover war dead.

Who Was Oleksiy Yukov?

Oleksiy Yukov was a Ukrainian volunteer, searcher and founder of Platsdarm (Bridgehead), a group dedicated to recovering the remains of people killed in war. Born and raised in Sloviansk in Ukraine's Donetsk region, Yukov devoted more than two decades to locating, exhuming and returning the remains of soldiers an...