Birthday girl at hero father’s grave

ON her first birthday, this little girl sits down to breakfast at the grave of her Ukrainian war hero father.

The child, wearing a pretty pink dress, points to a photograph of the serviceman, Vladsyslav Soldat, killed defending his country against the Russian invasion.

At her feet is a plate of bread rolls and a glass of water. The girl’s mother, Olena, said her pain ‘cannot be expressed in words’. ‘My heart is torn,’ she wrote online. About 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers are thought to have been killed since Russia invaded on February 24.