Ukraine Mourns 'Collector of Souls' Oleksiy Yukov Oleksiy Yukov was a man whose work defied categorization.
He had no formal training as an archaeologist or historian, yet his meticulous efforts helped recover and rebury thousands of Ukraine's war dead.
This unassuming heroism has left a nation in mourning after Yukov was killed while on a mission to retrieve bodies from a conflict zone.