Ukraine’s ‘collector of souls’ honoured after being killed recovering war dead

Oleksiy Yukov was known as the collector of souls (AP)

Thousands of people have gathered in the Ukrainian capital to pay their respects to Oleksiy Yukov, a volunteer who spent more than two decades recovering the bodies of civilians and soldiers – many of them Russian – killed by war.

An Orthodox Christian service was held at the Cathedral of Saint Volodymyr in central Kyiv on Saturday following Mr Yukov’s death in a landmine explosion during a recovery mission on August 5.