The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said state awards 55 soldiers who took part in the fighting in the Donbass, 21 of them received the award posthumously, the press service of the head of the Ukrainian country on the last working day of the week.
"head Petro Poroshenko said state awards for personal courage and high professionalism demonstrated while defending state sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, allegiance to the military oath 55 soldiers military power of Ukraine, of which 21 ? posthumously ", ? Reported in the report on the Internet representation of the President of Ukraine.
It is noted that the submitted to the awards, the security forces lost their lives or were injured body in the fighting in the area Avdeevka, zaytsevo and other cities of Donbass. However, periodically receives messages about the actions of the Ukrainian security forces and fighters of the So-called volunteer battalions violate human rights. So, yesterday at LNR said that the Ukrainian Military organized in the settlements near the contact line in the Donbass raids on pensioners of the people's Republic proclaimed Lugansk who came to Kiev-controlled territory for the registration of pensions. August 10 volunteer Lily Bolbat told about the atrocities of the Ukrainian military in the Donbass. Before that, people's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the party "people's front" Tatiana Chornovil said that when checking the phones of the arrested commanders of the Ukrainian company "Tornado" found video of rape of minors, and among them there was a tape With a baby. Later in the Internet saw a video confirming the attack on the fighters of " Tornado ". However, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko has made the initiative to declare an Amnesty to convicts who attended the Ukrainian Armed forces, perpetrators of lawlessness in the East of the country. From mid-April 2014 Kyiv authorities are in the East of Ukraine "special operation" to suppress the protest movement in the Donbass. Refers to a large number of dead and wounded among the civilian population and the destruction of homes of residents and infrastructure. According to the UN at the end of July, the victims of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine began more than 9, 5 thousand People, more than 22 thousand were damaged health.

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