The special working groups set up in the Lugansk People’s Republic and the Donetsk People’s Republic will continue the search for burial sites of Ukrainian aggression victims in the coming year, the LPR and DPR Heads, Leonid Pasechnik and Denis Pushilin told reporters.
“The inter-departmental commission plans to continue its work because we have no right to ignore even one grave and because the hostilities are ongoing, the war has not ended yet, so the work of this commission will retain its significance,” Pushilin said.
Pasechnik said that the inter-departmental group (set up by the LPR Head’s decree) will certainly continue its work.”
“As far as I know, there are other suspected burial sites which we’ll examine and probe the soil for signs of interment,” he said. In case we find them, we’ll exhume and identify the bodies according to our established procedure.”
In August, LPR and DPR representatives signed an agreement in Lugansk on cooperation and information exchange in the search for victims of Ukrainian aggression and identification of their remains.
In the LPR, the first exhumation of Ukrainian aggression victims by the working group was carried out in the village of Sabovka, Slavyanoserbsk district, on August 11. As of now, remains of 267 Kiev aggression victims have been retrieved.
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
