In late the August 2014 sunflowers hadn’t been harvested since the war in the Eastern Ukraine started and sunflower fields turned into battlefields.
Our soldiers were massively dying that day surrounded by those beautiful sunflowers. So today, on August 29th, we commemorate all the Ukrainian soldiers and volunteers who died at the battle of Ilovaisk in the russian -Ukrainian war. And we bring them sunflowers as a symbol of that tragic deadliest day.
Hundreds of our brave defenders got caught in the column when their positions were surrounded by the enemy. Although negotiations were held to let them pass through a humanitarian corridor, russian-backed separatists broke their word once again and started shooting Ukrainian soldiers like targets. Some were hit by a shell. Their bodies were thrown everywhere by the explosion.
According to the official data, 366 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the Ilovaisk battle on August 29, 2014.
We remember…Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the Heroes!
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