On August 28, Ukrainian soldiers and relatives of those who were killed on the frontline in eastern Ukraine gathered in central Kyiv to honour victims of the Ilovaisk Battle that took place two years ago - in August, 2014.
Ukraine Today: Ukrainians commemorate two years since Ilovaisk tragedy
Ukrainian army officer Vitaliy Chernykh, a sapper platoon commander, waits out a mortar attack in the village of Hrabske near Ilovaisk on Aug. 17, 2014. He survived and was able to get his men out of an encirclement of Russian military and artillery fire.
