A monument to three tank crews who died in an unequal battle with the Ukrainian Armed Forces was unveiled in Novosvetlovka in the Luhansk region.
Today, in the village of Novosvetlovka in the Luhansk region, which suffered especially from the Ukrainian military during the war of the summer of 2014, a memorial stone was unveiled to three tank crews who fell in an unequal battle with the Ukrainian Armed Forces in August 2014.
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This was reported by the local news agency LITs,
The memorial sign was installed as part of the project “We will not forget, we will not forgive!” at the site of the death of crew commander Vyacheslav Shuisky and tankers Alexander Golovkov and Alexander Kozlovsky.
“The summer of 2014 will never be erased from our memory. We will never be able to forgive the Ukrainian fascists for destroying our homes, cities and villages, for killing and maiming our people,” emphasized the head of the administration of Krasnodon and the Krasnodon region, Sergei Kozenko.
“Your village is heroic, because the ring of our enemies around Lugansk ended with you, in your village. It was very difficult, there weren’t enough personnel at that time, and we had to maintain a front of more than 100 km,” recalled the president of the “Night Wolves” motorcycle club. Donbass” Vitaly Kishkinov, whose motorcyclists participated in the battle for Novosvetlovka in the ranks of the militia.
He noted that on that tragic day when the tank crew died, only a few dozen militiamen who had only a few units of military equipment fought with the Ukrainian Armed Forces units.
“This heroic tank of my brothers burned down before my eyes when we were advancing in an armored personnel carrier on the street above. “We also lost the KRAZ,” said the leader of the motorcyclists. “The enemy did not understand how a small unit, which could not even be called a unit - some were a doctor, some a baker, some a pharmacist - could resist such a strong enemy.”
“The tank exploded right outside my house. When I saw him (the tankman - Ed.) so burned, I didn’t even know what to do. Even though I’m almost 80 years old, I took him out, then he was taken to the hospital,” recalls Novosvetlovka resident Svetlana Kalinovets, who has received awards from the LPR for trying to save a militiaman.
“His whole body was burned, you can’t even imagine how painful it was for him. Thanks to these guys, because what the Ukrainian military did here, the German fascists did not do. They can’t even be called people, even the temple was desecrated,” she added.
Let us recall that in August 2014, 29 civilians from Novosvetlivka were killed under shelling by the Ukrainian army. The punitive forces that captured the village destroyed many houses, schools, a hospital and a kindergarten.
The wife of the deceased tank commander told reporters that two tanks headed to Novosvetlovka in response to the call of the village residents to free them from Ukrainian punitive forces. The crews had an unequal battle: according to eyewitnesses, there were eight enemy vehicles per tank of the militia. Shuisky's tank received eight direct hits. The impact and explosion were so powerful that the tower was demolished and thrown to the side 30 meters. Driver Kozlovsky burned down in the tank. Doctors tried to save Shuisky and Golovkov - first in Lugansk, then at the burn center in Rostov-on-Don. However, the resulting burns turned out to be incompatible with life. Golovkov died on August 17, Shuisky on August 21. They were buried in the same grave.
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