On the hill Saur-Grave celebrates the day of liberation of Donbass
Several thousand people gathered at the memorial on the hill Saur-Grave close to the residential settlement of Snizhne in Donetsk region to celebrate the Day of liberation of Donbass, reports from the scene journalist Last news .
The population of Donbass each year emphasizes this holiday or early autumn of 1943 Donetsk, which at the time was called Stalino, was liberated from Nazi invaders.
Citizens of the self-proclaimed DNR collected at the base of the memorial, came to the head of the Republic Alexander Zakharchenko. The program planned a prayer service and wreath-laying to the monument to the fallen in the great Patriotic war soldiers and militia fighters who fought here in the Summer of 2014.
The memorial complex "Saur-Grave" was built after the great Patriotic war on the hill, where during the war there were persistent bloody battles. It was a dominating height after taking of which began the liberation of Donbass from Nazi invaders. In the summer of 2014 fighting for the mound was carried out between militias DNR and Ukrainian security forces. In the process the battle Memorial complex was destroyed.
|
