"I am proud of my husband," the widow said. Sándor Kis was a soldier in the Ukrainian Navy and the first Hungarian to die in the Russian-Ukrainian war.Continue reading
As we have reported before, Sándor Kis, 29, from Transcarpathia, was killed in the clashes in Ochakov in the Russian-Ukrainian war.
The Hungarian was on the last Ukrainian boat that did not surrender to the Russians during the fighting around the town of Ochakov in the southern part of the country. The boat was fired at by the attackers with a missile. 22 people were killed. Sándor Kis was a soldier in the Ukrainian Navy and the first Hungarian to die in the Russian-Ukrainian war.
Now a final farewell was said to him in Ungvár (Uzhhorod).
The funeral of a Ukrainian naval officer of Hungarian origin, Sándor Kis, at the military cemetery in Ungvár on March 22, 2022. Sándor Kis, 29, from Transcarpathia, was killed in the clashes at Ochakov in the Russian-Ukrainian war that broke out on February 24. Photo by János Nemes/MTI
Photo by János Nemes/MTI
Photo by János Nemes/MTI
Photo by János Nemes/MTI
Featured image: A local woman lays a bouquet of flowers on the coffin of a Ukrainian naval officer of Hungarian origin, Alexander Kis, in front of the military cemetery in Ungvár on March 22, 2022. Alexander Kis, 29, from Transcarpathia, was killed in the clashes in Ochakov in the Russian-Ukrainian war that broke out on February 24. Photo by János Nemes/MTI