Kiev consigns to the oblivion of the soldiers who died under Volnovakha
In order not to bother to investigate the circumstances of the May tragedy near the town of Volnovakha (DPR or Donetsk region) and not to pay the relatives of the dead Ukrainian fighters monetary compensation, the Kiev authorities decided to use a tactical ploy. The relatives and friends of the victims received official notices of the death of soldiers near Volnovakha with records that indicate that people died almost under unexplained circumstances. The records say that the bodies of the soldiers were found on the street with gunshot wounds. This is reported BBC News.
Tatiana Marinich tells about receiving the death notice and the entries in the son’s death certificate:
The statements that the authorities used make it possible not to pay compensation to the families of the victims and not to transfer them (the relatives of the servicemen) to the category of privileged persons for payment of utility bills. But today it’s not so much the concern of the relatives of servicemen who died near Volnovakha, but the attitude to the memory of the fighters by the new Ukrainian authorities, whose orders the soldiers carried out in the south-east of the country.
says the mother of one of the soldiers killed in the Donbass.
During the battle of Volnovakha (22 of May 2014), 20 people were killed (more conservative estimates), and 42 were injured. Ukrainian media publish the following "official" list of wounded and dead:
Tatiana Marinich tells about receiving the death notice and the entries in the son’s death certificate:
It says that they were all found on the street. Why is it not said that my son died during the war? It is also indicated that he died as a result of a gunshot wound. Nowhere is it indicated in the documents that he died as a soldier. This means that it was as if he was taken to the army, and he went AWOL, and then he was found dead on the street.
The statements that the authorities used make it possible not to pay compensation to the families of the victims and not to transfer them (the relatives of the servicemen) to the category of privileged persons for payment of utility bills. But today it’s not so much the concern of the relatives of servicemen who died near Volnovakha, but the attitude to the memory of the fighters by the new Ukrainian authorities, whose orders the soldiers carried out in the south-east of the country.
The head does not fit, why they wrote it. We really want to know the truth, why it is so written. We want a bright memory about our children. We do not want them to be blackened, because they will not return our children to us anymore.
says the mother of one of the soldiers killed in the Donbass.
During the battle of Volnovakha (22 of May 2014), 20 people were killed (more conservative estimates), and 42 were injured. Ukrainian media publish the following "official" list of wounded and dead:
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