A total of 225 unidentified participants of the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine were buried at the Krasnopillia cemetery in Dnipropetrovsk - names of 80 persons have already been established, the remains of 56 other individuals remain in Dnipropetrovsk mortuaries and three in Kharkiv.
Prior to the burial DNA was collected from all servicemen killed, deputy director of the department for cooperation with the law enforcement authorities of civilian protection and defense of the regional state administration Tatyana Romanovska told reporters on July 29.
“Out of 225 soldiers buried names of 80 have been established. This means that families were able to find their fathers, husbands, sons. Families took 72 bodies to the small motherland – to the Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Volyn, Lviv, Kirovohrad and other oblasts of Ukraine. Remains of another soldier will be collected soon. Seven families left the bodies of servicemen at the Krasnopillia cemetery. Today a total of 153 temporarily unidentified soldiers rest at the cemetery today,” Romanovska said.
Sixteen unknown servicemen were buried at the Krasnopillia cemetery in Dnipropetrovsk on July 29.
Remains of 12 out of 16 participants of the forceful operation were in a mortuary in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and four other bodies were brought from Kharkiv.
Special cemeteries for unidentified participants of the forceful operation exist only in Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhia.
“For a year we waited for matches, tried to find relatives but could not. Command of the Kharkiv post has asked the Dnipropetrovsk regional state administration for help with burials and received support. Yesterday a plane with bodies landed and today burials were organized already. Bodies of three other unidentified servicemen remain in a Kharkiv mortuary,” representative of the Kharkiv military enlistment office, Lieutenant Colonel Ihor Pluhator said
