Zaporizhia - The bodies of 87 Ukrainian soldiers killed near Ilovaisk, mostly members of volunteer battalions, have been taken to the Zaporizhia forensic morgue in the past two days, Mykhailo Lohvinov, deputy military commissioner of the Zaporizhia region, said.
“The bodies of 87 soldiers arrived in the past two days. They were from various military units – volunteer battalions and our 93rd separate mechanized brigade and the 51st mechanized brigade. But mainly volunteers,” Lohvinov told Interfax-Ukraine on Sept. 3.
The bodies are currently being identified and experts are working to determine the causes of their deaths.
The Ukrainian Interior Ministry’s public relations sector of the department for the Ivano-Frankivsk region later reported that eight members of the Ivano-Frankivsk special task patrol battalion had been killed near Ilovaisk.
“The names of three privates from the special task patrol battalion are known. The bodies of five soldiers who were killed as the motorcade was leaving Ilovaisk are yet to be identified,” the police said.
The source said fifty volunteer members of the Ivano-Frankivsk special task police battalion had left for the military operation zone in eastern Ukraine in early August and 33 of them had returned to Ivano-Frankivsk on Monday and Tuesday. According to the police, five of them had been wounded two had been taken prisoner.
