In Ukraine, the agonizing effort to identify the war dead overwhelms forensic workers Some bodies are buried before they're identified due to a lack of space in morgues

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In a small reception room in a hospital in Dnipro, in south-central Ukraine, Viktoria Lants struggled to look at the computer screen as a forensic worker shuffled through photos of the remains catalogued in the overwhelmed morgue. Some images were of badly damaged bodies, military clothing and a pocket knife. When her family was led into a refrigerated unit to view one body, her eyes lingered on a wooden cross. Lant's 31-year old son, Vladyslav Kharkov was given a similar one by his grandmother before he was sent to the front line over the summer. The last time she spoke...
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