Forensic experts identify 30 Ukrainian aggression victims buried in LPR

Forensic experts have identified 30 Ukrainian aggression victims whose remains were found in mass graves in the Lugansk People’s Republic, said the LPR inter-departmental working group on the search for burial sites of Ukrainian aggression victims, their identification and perpetration of their memory.

The reburial of the remains of 115 Lugansk civilians - Ukrainian aggression victims - that took place next to the memorial “We won’t Forget, Won’t Forgive” in the Vidnoye settlement area on Thursday, “wraps up the fifth stage of exhumation conducted by the interdepartmental working group,” the inter-departmental group reported.

“The remains have been passed to forensic experts and biological material has been taken for further identification. As of the time of reburial, 30 victims of Ukrainian Neo-nazism had been identified,” it said.

Earlier, head of the DPR Forensic Bureau Dmitry Kalashnikov said at the “Nonhealing Wound of Donbass” international roundtable discussion that as of November 2, the LPR had passed 125 fragments of remains of victims killed in Donbass fighting to the Donetsk People’s Republic for DNA tests. Relatives of the victims and missing persons contributed 130 blood samples for making DNA passports.

In the LPR, the first exhumation of Ukrainian aggression victims by the working group took place in the village of Sabovka, Slavyanoserbsk district, on August 11. As of November 2, remains of 267 Kiev aggression victims had been retrieved. The LPR and DPR Heads, Leonid Pasechnik and Denis Pushilin said that the search for burial sites of Ukrainian aggression victims would continue in the coming year.

LPR authorities urged to report individual or mass graves or missing relatives (in zones of fighting since 2014 to date) using the working group’s hotline +38 (72) 216 80 30 or email to wg-img-lpr@ya.ru . *i*s