Vovchansk faithful try to keep flame of flattened city alive

Vovchansk faithful try to keep flame of flattened city alive

In the northeastern Ukrainian city of Vovchansk, Father Igor Klymenko's church services used to attract hundreds of parishioners.

Now, that city lies in ruins and the few remaining members of the 55-year-old priest's flock gather in a cavernous church in Kharkiv, to which many of Vovchansk's residents fled.

In June, Igor's Myrrh Bearers Church stood intact amid the devastation, but now satellite images analysed by investigative collective Bellingcat show little more than a few charred walls.