Ukrainian city unveils monument dedicated to those who died fighting in the Donbas
On Saturday, the first monument dedicated to Ukrainian soldiers who died during the hostilities in the Donbas region was unveiled in the city of Kryvyi Rih in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. The opening ceremony was attended by the city residents, combatants with their families and authorities.
As reported by the City Council of Kryvyi Rih, the demobilized fighters, relatives of military victims and volunteers initiated a monument to be built for the soldiers in the city.
The sketch of the monument was created by the sculptor Vladimir Turner, a resident of Kryvyi Rih. According to his draft, a monument in memory of the Soviet-Afghan War was built before in the district Oktyabrsky. According to the creator of the monument, the prototype of the monument had a real personality – the mortar-"cyborg", Evgeny Abrosimov, with the callsign "Apricot", who took part in the defense of the Donetsk Airport.
The sculpture "cyborg" is placed between two symbolic wings of the aircraft, which symbolize the tragedy of the Il-76 that was shot down by armed separatists near Luhansk in June of 2014. 49 Ukrainian soldiers were killed. Among them were people from Dnipropetrovsk and Kryvyi Rih. The names of the countrymen killed during the military operation in eastern Ukraine are carved on the monument. Kryvyi Rih has lost a hundred soldiers fighting in the Donbas region.