Its work helped families recover the bodies of fallen loved ones and provide them with dignified burials. "For us, it's very important that every guy and girl comes home," Yukov told RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service in April last year. As a teenager, he was involved in searching and exhuming the remains of Soviet and German soldiers killed during World War I and II. Yukov, who had been working as a Thai boxing coach, quickly started to recover unidentified bodies of recently killed soldiers and civilians from both sides of the lines. Last WordsIn February 2026, RFE/RL produced a documentary film about the ongoing work to recover the bodies of fallen soldiers.