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AP PHOTOS: The artist retrieving bodies in Ukraine’s Bucha

Funeral workers walk to dig a new grave at a cemetery in Bucha, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Vlad Minchenko smokes a cigarette as he stands in the graveyard in Bucha, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Minchenko wakes every day with trembling hands. For hours, until it eases, he can't message on his phone or even consider his previous work of making art or tattoos. But he can continue to retrieve bodies, scores of bodies, around the Ukrainian town of Bucha as part of a task that continues more than three weeks after Russian forces withdrew.(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

The wife of Stanislav Berestnev who died during the Russian occupation, places a handful of earth on his coffin as he is buried in the graveyard in Bucha, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Vlad Minchenko, left, helps to lower the coffin of Stanislav Berestnev who died during the Russian occupation and was buried in the graveyard in Bucha, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Vlad Minchenko, right, helps to carry the coffin of Stanislav Berestnev who died during the Russian occupation and was buried in the graveyard in Bucha, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Minchenko wakes every day with trembling hands. For hours, until it eases, he can't message on his phone or even consider his previous work of making art or tattoos. But he can continue to retrieve bodies, scores of bodies, around the Ukrainian town of Bucha as part of a task that continues more than three weeks after Russian forces withdrew.(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Vlad Minchenko, center, helps to close the coffin of Stanislav Berestnev who died during the Russian occupation and was buried in the graveyard in Bucha, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Minchenko wakes every day with trembling hands. For hours, until it eases, he can't message on his phone or even consider his previous work of making art or tattoos. But he can continue to retrieve bodies, scores of bodies, around the Ukrainian town of Bucha as part of a task that continues more than three weeks after Russian forces withdrew.(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Vlad Minchenko gets out of the vehicle that was carrying the dead body of Stanislav Berestnev who died during the Russian occupation and was buried in the graveyard in Bucha, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Minchenko wakes every day with trembling hands. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Vlad Minchenko speaks to the wife of Stanislav Berestnev who died during the Russian occupation and was buried in the graveyard in Bucha, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Minchenko wakes every day with trembling hands. For hours, until it eases, he can't message on his phone or even consider his previous work of making art or tattoos. But he can continue to retrieve bodies, scores of bodies, around the Ukrainian town of Bucha as part of a task that continues more than three weeks after Russian forces withdrew.(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

FILE - Cemetery workers exhume the corpse of a civilian killed in Bucha from a mass grave, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

FILE - Cemetery worker Vlad Minchenko, left, watches as Natalya Verbova, 49, and her son Roman Verbovyi, 23, attend the funeral of her husband Andriy Verbovyi, 55, who was killed by Russian soldiers while serving in the Bucha territorial defense, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday , April 13, 2022. Minchenko wakes every day with trembling hands. For hours, until it eases, he can't message on his phone or even consider his previous work of making art or tattoos. But he can continue to retrieve bodies, scores of bodies, around the Ukrainian town of Bucha as part of a task that continues more than three weeks after Russian forces withdrew.(AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

FILE - Cemetery workers work on the tomb of Tetyana Gramushnyak, 75, killed by shelling on March 19, while cooking food outside her home in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday , April 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

FILE - Volunteers load bodies of civilians killed in Bucha onto a truck to be taken to a morgue for investigation, in Bucha on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

FILE - Cemetery workers Vlad Minchenko, center, and Artem, left, prepare the coffin for a person killed during the war with Russia, as dozens of black bags containing more bodies of victims are seen strewn across the graveyard in the cemetery in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

FILE - A cemetery worker takes a rest from working on the graves of civilians killed in Bucha during the war with Russia, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday April 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

FILE - A woman stands next to three people killed in the courtyard of a house in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

Cemetery workers, Artem, right, and Vlad Minchenko, smoke while taking a break from attending funerals in the cemetery in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday , April 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

Vlad Minchenko, second left, smokes a cigarette in the graveyard in Bucha, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Minchenko wakes every day with trembling hands. For hours, until it eases, he can't message on his phone or even consider his previous work of making art or tattoos. But he can continue to retrieve bodies, scores of bodies, around the Ukrainian town of Bucha as part of a task that continues more than three weeks after Russian forces withdrew. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Vlad Minchenko, left, carries a plastic bag with the dead body of Stanislav Berestnev who died during the Russian occupation and was buried in the graveyard in Bucha, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Minchenko wakes every day with trembling hands. For hours, until it eases, he can't message on his phone or even consider his previous work of making art or tattoos. But he can continue to retrieve bodies, scores of bodies, around the Ukrainian town of Bucha as part of a task that continues more than three weeks after Russian forces withdrew.(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

AP PHOTOS: The artist retrieving bodies in Ukraine’s Bucha