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The result of the DNA examination showed that the soldier’s body, which was recently transferred through Russian-led forces to Ukrainian government-controlled territory, belongs to the deceased army doctor, Estonian citizen Nikolai Ilyin, according to joint operations forces (JFO) Facebok page on Monday.
“The deceased sergeant Nikolai Ilyin was an Estonian citizen, served as the best friend in a unit of the Ukrainian armed forces … Joint Forces Command expresses its sincere condolences to the family, friends and brothers of the deceased hero,” the message said.
The doctor’s farewell will take place in Kiev on July 22.
As reported, on 13 July, Russian-led forces fired on a collection of Ukrainian infantry soldiers who were evacuating the framework of a Ukrainian army soldier near the village of Zaitseve. As a result of enemy fire, one soldier killed, one soldier wounded, and another wounded in action.
The bodies of the dead and wounded remained at the site of the bombing. Negotiations have begun with OSCE MMS on its evacuation. On 1 July, the body of a soldier who died on 13 July near Zaitseve returned from the temporarily occupied territory.
It was later learned that the army doctor who died in the Donbass was an Estonian citizen.
On 17 July, Russian-led forces passed through an unknown frame to Ukraine from the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine in the Donbass, however, there was no doubt that it was an army doctor who was killed near Zaitseve on July 13, so he sent a DNA examination. .
On the same day, Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu demonstrated that the Estonian citizen had killed army operations at the Donbass on Monday, July 13. He arrived in Estonia in 2006 as an assigned researcher and had a refugee. state, and in 2016, won Estonian citizensend through naturalization, renouncing the Belarusian citizensend.
The prosecutor in the Donetsk region has opened an initial investigation into the violation of the laws and customs of war, combined with premeditated killings, through Russian-led illegal forces.
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