Mayor Yriy Pzylyko was delivering food and medicine to civilians who had been excluded from the fighting when their humanitarian convoy came under fire from Russian snipers hiding in a high-rise building. When Pavlenko went face down with the soldiers to retrieve Pzylyko’s body, they took off his robes and crucified him with almost shame. “Do not touch the body because it will explode and explode with it,” shouted a soldier. Pavlenko shrank. No one is sure how many civilians have been killed in the battles at Hostomel PAULA BRONSTEIN FOR THE TIMES As the priest would find out, the soldiers who killed Pzylyko and a driver, Ivan Zoryo, were not buried
