Liz Dunphy: Everywhere you look are reminders that nowhere in Ukraine is really safe

As families buried their dead in the wake of more deadly missile attacks, Taoiseach Simon Harris came to Kyiv with funding and a message of support from Ireland
Liz Dunphy: Everywhere you look are reminders that nowhere in Ukraine is really safe

Priests conduct the funeral service for family members of Yaroslav Bazylevych at a city cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine today, Friday. Mr Bazylevych's  wife Yevgenia and their three daughters — Daryna, 18, Emilia, 7, and Yaryna, 21 — were all killed in Wednesday's devastating Russian missile attack. Picture: Mykola Tys/AP

Anti-missile batteries tilt up towards the sky around Rzeszów airport in Poland, a chilling reminder of the bloody war being fought over the nearby border.

The small regional airport in the south-east of the country has become a key location for Western support of Ukraine because of its location, just 80km from the border.

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