Two more National Guard soldiers, wounded in clashes near Parliament on Aug 31, died
Two more National Guard soldiers, wounded in the clashes near the Ukraine’s Parliament on August 31, died it the hospital today.
“Another [serviceman] of the National Guard’s military unit 3027, Dmytro Slastykov drafted from Zhovte Vody, has died at hospital of injuries sustained in yesterday’s grenade explosion,” Interior Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Avakov posted on his Facebook page on Tuesday.
Later today, presidential advisor Olha Bohomolets has reported that the third soldier died.
“Another one, a third person injured near the Verkhovna Rada yesterday, has died at the Oleksandrivska Hospital. The guy from Kherson born in 1995 suffered lethal brain injuries. My deep condolences to the family of the deceased,” she wrote on Facebook on Tuesday afternoon.
Yesterday, the clashes among the law enforcement officers and protesters, who demanded not to approve amendments to the Constitution, began near the Parliament. The Interior Ministry reported that about 100 police officers and the National Guard soldiers were injured. One National Guard soldier, 24-year-old Ihor Debrin of Kherson, died from shrapnel wounds.
The Radio Liberty journalists and the Interior Ministry employees captured a man, who threw a grenade at the law enforcers, on a video. Later it turned out that it was a member of the Sich volunteer battalion, member of the Freedom All-Ukrainian Union, Ihor Humenyuk.
The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union offers free legal protection to all victims. The human rights activists say that it will allow not only punishing perpetrators, but also getting compensation by a decision of the European Court of Human Rights.
