Activists demand to punish ‘Ilovaisk tragedy’ perpetrators
Date:
18 January 2016
About 200 people, including ATO veterans and volunteers, are picketing the Administration of President of Ukraine demanding to punish the perpetrators of the “Ilovaisk tragedy.”
This is reported by BBC Ukraine with reference to UNIAN.
The protesters demand immediate sending of the case on “the Ilovaisk pocket” to the court and well as discharging from office at the time of judicial investigation and prosecuting former Defense Minister of Ukraine Valery Heletei, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Viktor Muzhenko and others.
According to the military prosecutor’s office, more than 360 ATO soldiers were killed in Ilovaisk in the second half of August 2014. Over 180 servicemen are missing.
