Hundreds gathered at the Golden-Domed St. Michael’s Monastery in central Kiev on Saturday, 18 to attend the funeral of a Ukrainian activist killed in fighting in the east of the country. Roman Ratuchny was one of the leaders of the pro-European movement on Maidan Square in 2013.
Hundreds gathered at the Golden-Domed St. Michael’s Monastery in central Kiev on Saturday, 18 to attend the funeral of a Ukrainian activist killed in fighting in the east of the country. Roman Ratuchny was one of the leaders of the pro-European movement on Maidan Square in 2013.
The 24-year-old died near Izium on June 9, in the Kharkiv region, where Ukrainian forces fought the Russian army that invaded the country on February 24.
Rauchny was one of the first students to protest in Independence Square in late 2013, when the pro-European protest movement later known as Euromaidan began. This mobilization led to the departure of then-president, pro-Russian Viktor Yanukovych, in 2014.
“Even though I didn’t know him personally, I felt like[his death]was a loss because while he was forming my worldview he was someone who influenced my vision and helped build who I am now. Roman was such a person. Alina Horhol, a student who attended the ceremony, could have changed a lot in our society,” she said. .
Zelensky visited the border area of Russian occupation
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who has rarely left the country’s capital, Kyiv, since the beginning of the Russian occupation, made his first visit to Mikolaiv, southern Ukraine, on Saturday.
A video released by the Ukrainian presidency shows Zelensky inspecting a heavily damaged residential building on Saturday. There is a big hole in the building where you can see inside the apartments.
The President also presented them with medals of bravery during a meeting with local officials in what appeared to be a basement.
The port city is still under Ukrainian control, but close to the Russian-occupied Kherson region. Mikolaiv remains a target for Moscow, as it is located 130 kilometers southwest on the road to Odessa, Ukraine’s largest port.
The president’s move comes a day after a Russian attack that left two dead and 20 wounded in this port and industrial city of nearly half a million people before the war.
German investigations
The Russian occupation will soon complete four months and accumulate reports of barbaric crimes against Ukrainian society. On Saturday, a German police unit said it was investigating hundreds of possible war crimes committed by Russian troops in Ukraine.
“We’ve had hundreds of symptoms so far,” Holger Münch, director of the German police’s Federal Criminal Investigation Agency, told the newspaper. Welt am Sonntag.
He stated that the aim is to “identify those responsible for atrocities, prove their actions through investigations and bring it to justice”, including in Germany, which exercises universal jurisdiction, and ensure that certain crimes are prosecuted regardless of where they are committed. loyalty.
source: Noticias
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