{"id":15501,"date":"2020-07-26T19:59:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T19:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=15501"},"modified":"2020-07-26T19:59:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T19:59:57","slug":"joint-forces-operation-headquarters-body-of-killed-medic-was-cut-with-bones-excised-and-wounded-marine-bled-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/joint-forces-operation-headquarters-body-of-killed-medic-was-cut-with-bones-excised-and-wounded-marine-bled-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint Forces Operation Headquarters: Body of killed medic was cut with bones excised, and wounded marine bled to death"},"content":{"rendered":"

The BBC News Ukraine agency<\/a> received a report from the Joint Forces Operation Headquarters with some details about the death of a wounded marine who could not be evacuated from the battlefield.<\/p>\n

What happened to the wounded marine?<\/h2>\n

On July 13, a group of Ukrainian servicemen tried to pick up the body of a killed Ukrainian scout from a spot of \u201cgray zone\u201d (no-man\u2019s land) near Zaitseve and got shot at.<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian side insists that the Ukrainian troops acted under a cease-fire agreement and wore white helmets, which was confirmed by pictures taken from a drone.<\/p>\n

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Nevertheless, the troops were shot at and a wounded sergeant Yaroslav Zhuravel was left on the battlefield.<\/p>\n

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Mykola Ilin. Yaroslav Zhuravel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Officials from the Joint Forces Operation headquarters told representatives of the BBC Ukraine agency that the Ukrainian side had repeatedly used the SMM OSCE as go-between in their communication with pro-Russian armed groups, asking to allow them to pick up the wounded serviceman. The Ukrainian troops explained that \u201cthe wounded person had special white labels on his clothes, meaning that he was a member of an evacuation team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, the adversary refused, and it made a timely search and rescue mission impossible<\/p>\n

\u201cMeanwhile,\u201d says the JFO report, \u201cthe enemy conducted their own search and played for time. This deliberate playing for time had terrible consequences. The wounded serviceman did not receive the necessary medical help and bled to death.\u201d<\/p>\n

What Happened to the Medic\u2019s Body?<\/h2>\n

The JFO officials also told the BBC Ukraine some details regarding the return of the bodies of the killed Ukrainian troops. The return was repeatedly delayed, too.
\nAt the moment when the bodies of fallen Ukrainian troops became available for pickup by an Evacuation-200 Ukrainian evacuation group, these bodies showed irreversible postmortem changes, which can mean that the bodies had not been preserved at a morgue as the rules request.<\/p>\n

The dead troops did not have their military uniform on.<\/p>\n

Also, the body of a military medic Mykola Ilin showed signs of incisions. The Ukrainian side noted \u201cthe weird and outrageous fact that someone cut open the body of a military medic who had been killed on a battlefield.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBesides, it was impossible,\u201d say the JFO officials, \u201cto establish the kind of weapon that killed the military medic because the injured organs and bones had been excised from the body by representatives of the Russian occupier troops at the morgue of the city of Horlivka on the temporarily occupied territory of the Donetsk region.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Russian Mine<\/h2>\n

The Joint Forces Operation Command also reports that the evacuation team found a Russian POM-2 antipersonnel mine.<\/p>\n

“Such mines are prohibited by the Ottawa Convention and are manufactured exclusively in the Russian Federation. POM-2 is installed remotely, it has a period of self-liquidation from 4 to 100 hours,” \u2013 said JFO represenatives in response to the press service.<\/p>\n

Such mines are placed behind RPG-7 grenade launchers, the radius of continuous damage is up to 16 meters.<\/p>\n

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