‘Every day there’s another funeral’: Ukrainian families mourn fallen

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'Every day there's another funeral': Ukrainian families mourn fallen

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CNN's Ben Wedeman reports from Mykolaiv, where as one grieving mother watches her son's coffin lowered into the ground, a gravedigger breaks ground for another fallen soldier as the death count in Ukraine continues to grow.

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