Kremlin-controlled TV – Channel 1 and NTV – on Thursday for the first time showed the materials of the Russian soldiers who died in the Ukraine. So far, Moscow denied the soldiers of Russia took part in the conflict in Ukraine.
The two stations gave relationships with burial at the cemetery in Kostroma, 330 km northeast of Moscow, 28-year-old Anatoly Trawkina, a soldier stationed there ensemble with 98th Guards Airborne Division. According to Channel 1 and NTV he died a month before the Donbas.
The pro-Kremlin TV reported that Trawkin took a break in his unit and in secret from his family, including his wife married in July, went to Ukraine. Trawkina buried with full military honors – a military band played the anthem of Russia, and a company of troops 98th Division gave a volley of honor.
Channel 1 and NTV also presented relationships with mourning ceremony at a cemetery in Elektrogorsku, 80 km east of Moscow, where Sergei commemorated Zdanowicz, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, who died in May in Donetsk.
On Wednesday, the two stations, as well as state Rossiya, gave a joint statement the four organizations of war veterans – Officers Association, Association of Soldiers of the Airborne Forces of Russia, the Union of Veterans of Afghanistan and the Combat Brotherhood – in which they urged the Russians to the Russian volunteers who fought in the south eastern Ukraine they considered heroes.
“They were soldiers who went southeast Ukraine, guided by the appeal of the heart; went there to defend the fraternal nation” – four organizations have stated in the document that their leaders read out before the cameras, standing against the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Alexandrovsky Park before the Kremlin Wall.
“As long it’s time to tell the Russian society, the whole world community that are not adventurers, criminals and mercenaries. These are Russian people who have written in the genes that should help the fraternal peoples in difficult situations” – declared .
One of the rebel leaders in the Donbas Oleksandr Zacharczenko announced in late August that the ranks of volunteers are fighting not only Russia, but also professional soldiers who specially take leave.
“I never hid that among us there are many Russians, without whose help we would have been difficult, more difficult to fight. In our ranks there were about 3-4 thousand. Many have already left home. However, most have been here. Unfortunately, the among them are killed, “- said before the TV cameras Rossiya.
According to the Chair of the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers, an NGO defending the rights of the armed forces of Russia, Valentina Melnikova now in Ukraine can stay 7-8 thousand Russian soldiers. It bases its estimates on information obtained from the families whose sons or husbands went to military exercises, and then lost contact with them.
Kiev and the West accuse Russia of sending regular troops in the east of Ukraine. Moscow denies. Russian human rights organizations say that so far in the fighting in the south-eastern Ukraine killed at least 200 Russian soldiers.
From Moscow Jerzy Malczyk (PAP)
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