A militant who crashed in a «drunk» road accident was given a sign «Killed for Ukraine»

At the entrance to the city of Severodonetsk. Archival photoKAPITANOVO (LPR), May 31. Ukrainian militant Dmitro Kit, who crashed in an accident, was put up at the place of death with a memorial cross with the inscription «Killed for Ukraine,» a local resident, head of the life support department of the villages of Grechishkino and Muratovo Pavel Grechishkin, appointed by the authorities of the Lugansk People's Republic. When the suburbs of Severodonetsk were liberated, the LNR People's Militia found a memorial cross on the highway between the villages of Grechishkino and Kapitanovo. >A van with mined bodies of Ukrainian militants was found at Azovstal «Kit Dmitro Dmitrovich died here. October 15, 2014. For Ukraine!» — reads the inscription in Ukrainian on the cross. There is a bouquet of artificial roses near the cross, a fence is installed around it. «Every year, on the anniversary of his death, his colleagues gathered at this place, many cars arrived. As I understand it, he was quite famous and influential. Ukrainians sang patriotic songs, raised toasts. But all the locals knew very well that the military man died in an accident — he got behind the wheel drunk and lost control, «Grechishkin told RIA Novosti. He recalled that in October 2014 there were no more hostilities — the area was deep in the rear under the control of the Ukrainian security forces. “But many people drank from them, committed atrocities under this case,” the head of the village said. According to him, once he and his wife and daughter were stopped at a checkpoint by inadequate military men who themselves could not explain what they wanted. «They were very strange, as if smoky — they themselves did not know what they needed. They stopped everyone in a row. I was very scared for my family,» Grechishkin said. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.