President Volodymyr Zelensky personally announced that a brigade commander is suspended while authorities investigate how a tribute to soldiers ended up with many of them dead.
Relatives, friends and fellow service members gather Wednesday at the St. Feodosiivsky Monastery in Kyiv for the funeral of 128th Mountain Assault Brigade soldier Mykyta Vlaskov. KYIV — Members of Ukraine’s 128th Mountain Assault Brigade gathered Friday morning for a medal ceremony near the front line in the southeastern region of Zaporizhzhia — continuing a military tradition dating back to Soviet times, which Ukrainian officials had sustained to prop up morale among exhausted troops.
A Russian missile, two by some accounts, struck the gathering 10 minutes after the ceremony began at about 10 a.m. The first brigade member said the location of the ceremony was “constantly within the range of ballistic missile strikes and everything else that flies from afar.” “Everyone is angry at the command,” the second brigade member said. “They could have given an order to move everything to another location or some shelter. Move everything and conduct the ceremony there.However, even after the attack, some officials defended the practice of awarding medals near the combat zone. Former deputy defense minister Hanna Maliar said the ceremonies were a “very important part” of military culture.
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