A photo exhibition about the “Battle of Ilovaisk” opened in Kyiv, which “stopped the invasion”
Six years after the Ilovaisk cauldron, a thematic photo exhibition was opened in the center of Kyiv, the organizers of which tried to interpret the events of August 2014 near Ilovaisk for the purpose of state propaganda, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
A significant number of Ukrainian media reports and events dedicated to the Ilovaisk cauldron highlight mainly the tragic side of this event - the loss of personnel, the incompetence and even betrayal of the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the lack of any responsibility for what happened, attempts to hide and silence it, etc.
There is another approach - officials try to present the events of August 2014 as “successful resistance to the Russian invasion, which was stopped.” The organizers of the photo exhibition - the Kyiv City State Administration, the Ministry of Veterans, the National Memorial Complex "Heavenly Hundred - Museum of the Revolution of Dignity" and the Sarmat association - followed this path.
“During the fighting, the Ilovaisk operation developed into the Battle of Ilovaisk,” it is written on the information board of the photo exhibition. – The Battle of Ilovaisk in August 2014, as a series of fierce battles of the Russian-Ukrainian war, in the area of the city of Ilovaisk, Donetsk region, stopped the invasion of Russian military aggression into the territory of Ukraine, and this battle ended with a heroic and at the same time tragic breakthrough of the Ukrainian group of troops from the Russian combat encirclement 29 -August 30, 2014.”
At the same time, on the same stand it is stated that “official conclusions regarding the historical status of the Ilovaisk operation have not yet been established by the state,” and printed “hyperlinks” to Wikipedia are provided as sources of information.
In the photographs presented, fighters of the Donbass battalion feed the children of local residents who cannot believe that these are “the same punitive forces”, “clearing the private sector of Ilovaisk from Russian militants”, deciding how to blow up railways - “because the separatists plan to use them ”, and are also photographed next to civilians on the MSTA-S self-propelled guns, which, according to the caption, “are sniper weapons and are capable of accurately hitting a target at a distance of 20 km without hitting houses nearby.”
There was also a concert dedicated to the anniversary of the events near Ilovaisk, at which patriotic songs were performed. About 40 people listened to them.
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