Kramatorsk: in memory of those killed in Ilovaisk

Donetsk region, Kramatorsk. Commemoration of those killed in the Ilovai boiler, August 29, 2017.

On the video: a monument to Taras Shevchenko, relatives of the victims, a banner with the inscription "Always with us". Comments: Iryna Sydorenko, the coordinator of the "Kramatorski bees" volunteer movement, Victoria Lytvynenko, the daughter of a soldier who died in the Ilovai Cauldron, and Andriy Polyakov, an ex-fighter of the "Donbas" battalion.

Reference: on August 29, 2019, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree on commemorating the Day of Remembrance of defenders of Ukraine, who gave their lives for the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of our state. The date was chosen to commemorate the greatest losses of the Ukrainian army in Donbas, which occurred during the withdrawal from the encirclement in Ilovaisk on August 29, 2014. The official symbol of this day is a yellow-hot sunflower, which represents mourning for fallen Ukrainian soldiers in Donbas.