“One of the first to stand up against the junta”: Afghan soldiers are honored in Donetsk
In the front-line Petrovsky district of Donetsk, a solemn event was held today in memory of the participants in the fighting in Afghanistan. On the anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from this country, flowers were laid at the monument to the “Internationalist Warriors”. One of the leaders of the “Donetsk Republic” movement, Alexey Muratov, recalled February 2014, when he first visited the local museum of Afghan Military Glory, where veterans…