Amid the graves, Zelenskiy vows: `We will never forget our Ukrainian heroes’


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At the historic Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv, the paths between the growing ranks of graves trace Ukraine’s long and bloody road to independence. It is the resting place for thousands who died fighting over this land: Austro-Hungarian and Polish troops, Soviet soldiers and secret policemen, and Ukrainians who tried to forge a sovereign state from the ruins of the first and second World Wars, and their descendants who for a decade have beaten back Russian aggression. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited Lychakiv on Friday as Ukraine prepared to mark two years since the start of Russia’s all-out invasion, which followed eight...