Ukraine War Heartbroken Mothers Mourn Two Lifelong Friends Tortured By Russian Soldiers World News
The bodies of Pavel Kholodenko and Viktor Balai, both 28, were found buried in a shallow forest grave in early April. The two young men, who went to kindergarten together, went to school together and served briefly in the Ukrainian army together, were brutally tortured and killed together by Russian soldiers, their grieving mothers said. Their previous military service was probably the reason they were executed. Suffering from the pain of their loss, the mothers told Sky News that their boys were planning to volunteer to fight the invasion before suddenly losing contact with the couple when Russian tanks stormed the village of Zdvizhivka on February 25....