It is not the sea of wooden crosses that springs to mind as Colonel Serhii Bolvinov recalls the moment he arrived at the forest outside Izium, in eastern Ukraine. It is the overwhelming smell.

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Despite my keeping it away from the sun and taking amazing care of it, the thing faded faster than my eyesight did. #shorts ...