20/10/2021 Ucraina (Україна), Oblast’ Ivano-Frankivs’k (Івано-Франківська область-Ivano-Frankivs’ka oblast’), Nadvornyans’kyi (Надворнянський район), Voronenko (Вороненко)
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By MARIO LEDWITH FOR THE DAILY MAIL
Sitting around a campfire in an idyllic forest clearing, it was the perfect honeymoon celebration with family and friends. But the dream outing was transformed into a bloodbath by a buried First World War bomb. Shrapnel tore through Lidiia Makarchuk’s body and her brother was killed. The 31-year-old had travelled to the Ukrainian beauty spot for a belated honeymoon after marrying Norbert Varga, 43, near their home in Bracknell, Berkshire. It is thought the explosion was triggered by the fire the party of 12 had lit at the end of a walk last month in the Carpathian Mountains near the border with Hungary. The bomb went off while they were telling stories and drinking tea. Miss Makarchuk, a Ukraine-born accountant, recalled telling her friends how her husband had won her heart after complimenting her shoes in church back in 2019. She said: ‘The fire made a special atmosphere and we had a lot to say. It had been such a long time since we’d seen each other.’ Mr Varga, a radio operator and keen photographer, went to his tent at around 9pm to fetch his camera when he was rocked by an earth-shattering blast.
Photo: Lidiia (right) by the campfire with her friends moments before the tragedy. It is thought the bomb came from the time of the Brusilov Offensive, a bloody campaign waged by the Russians against Austria-Hungary in 1916
Небрежное обращение с оружием и взрывными устройствами, которые находятся в незаконном обороте, продолжает ежедневно уносить жизни наших граждан», – тогда написал в Facebook замглавы Национальной полиции Украины Вячеслав Аброськин
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