The funeral of the Gostomel mayor plays out in reverse. His body is pulled out from the ground, the crowd of mourners disperses, then a priest hugs his weeping wife and says a few kind words. Yuriy Prylypko "was a great patriot, a great man", says Father Petro Pavlenko. "He was loved." Prylypko was killed on March 7, after Russian forces rolled into the Kyiv commuter town he managed. The municipal council said he was shot dead while "handing out bread to the hungry and medicine to the sick". IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES