Katerina Chernovol18:59, 18.04.23

Before being sold, the stolen slabs are polished to remove the names of buried Ukrainians from them.

Russian occupiers steal tombstones from cemeteries in the Popasnaya Luhansk region, and then sell them in Russia. At what they sell the stolen plates to the relatives of the liquidated mobiles.

As the former head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai said on the air of Espresso , the occupiers are not going to restore the cities of the Luhansk region destroyed by the Russian army.

“They officially talk about it. Moreover, the Russians were able to surpass themselves. In Popasnaya, the invaders are dismantling cemeteries. In particular, they take tombstones, polish them to remove names, portraits and dates, and then sell them to Russia. They sell them to Russians whose relatives were mobilized and destroyed in Ukraine,” Gaidai stressed.

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On Tuesday, April 18, the invaders attacked the Sumy region from the territory of the Russian Federation. A deadly artillery shelling killed a woman. The prosecutor’s office has already launched a pre-trial investigation.

Kharkiv region also suffers from enemy fire. There, an 18-year-old girl was injured as a result of a Russian strike . She was hospitalized.

 At the same time, in the occupied part of the Kherson region, the invaders are preparing to escape . Kherson deputy Sergei Khlan noted that the Russians “are sitting on their suitcases.”

(C)UNIAN 2023