Zelensky Meets With Families of Soldiers Who Died Under Suspicious Circumstances

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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky had a meeting with relatives of family members who died under suspicious circumstances while members of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and National Guard

The relatives of the deceased stressed that the investigative bodies were trying to misrepresent the deaths of their relatives as suicides despite the fact that, in some cases, indications of beatings and gunshot wounds had been found on the bodies. In some cases, there are eye-witnesses to the suspected murder and even the names of those who committed it are known.

“I faced this last autumn when one of my comrades was killed, then hung up and passed off as a banal suicide. We faced the endless circle and lack of objective investigation,” Serhiy Ulyanov, a former soldier, said.

Zelensky took the issues under his personal control and gave the instructions to Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Ruslan Riaboshapka.

“If we can achieve a complete, comprehensive and objective investigation of individual cases, this will help get things moving in other investigations that you consider unreliable. I will require the State Bureau of Investigation, the National Police, the prosecutor’s office and other law enforcement bodies to investigate the death of each warrior as promptly and objectively as possible,” Zelensky said.

Riaboshapka suggested arranging a meeting of the families of the deceased soldiers with the leaders of the law enforcement bodies, military units of the Armed Forces and the National Guard, the Military Law and Order Service, the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in order to clarify the situation with the state of investigation of such tragedies and their consequences.