On a windswept hillside in eastern Ukraine, yet another funeral in yet another graveyard.
This time, it is a police officer, shot in the face by a suspected Russian saboteur close to the frontline in the Donbas. 37-year-old Ivan Savchenko is the seventh policeman killed in Sieverodonetsk.
As it begins to rain on the fresh tombs that have been laid to rest in recent days, the acres of graves being excavated for those yet to arrive as well as the ageing monuments for those lost in 2014’s conflict, it is a scene that plays out here with depressing regularity.
The military chaplain has just arrived from a funeral of a soldier just behind us. The cracks of that gun salute still hang in the air as he begins his prayers again. But to each and every family plunged into grief across this country, there is nothing routine about their bereavement.
Oleg Hryhorov is the Chief of Police in the Luhansk region, and he and many of his officers have made the six hour journey to pay their respects to their colleague Savchenko.
He invited us to film this funeral, to show the world the toll this war is taking on his men and women and to recognise the sacrifice of his officers. Every funeral, he says, gets harder.
But Putin is pledging to intensify the war in this area of Ukraine — it will mean many more deaths, many more funerals and many more families whose lives have been shattered on the whim of a leader intent on so much destruction here.