Military prosecutors in Dnipropetrovsk are currently questioning senior Ukrainian Armed Forces leadership during their investigation into the events near Ilovaisk in Donetsk Oblast. This was announced this morning by Prosecutor General Vitaliy Yarema.
"Military prosecutors are currently working in Dnepropetrovsk, interrogating, in particular, Muzhenko (Viktor Muzhenko, Chief of the General Staff), Litvin (Petro Litvin, Commander of the Southern Operational Command), and the top echelon of the Armed Forces," he told reporters in Kyiv.
The Prosecutor General recalled that military prosecutors are investigating the circumstances of the deaths of a large number of soldiers in the Ilovaisk cauldron.
"Either these were objective circumstances resulting from Russian aggression, or they were miscalculations on the part of the military unit's leadership," Yarema emphasized.
According to him, 200 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the battle near Ilovaisk. "At least 200 people died near Ilovaisk," Yarema said, answering a clarifying question from journalists.
Moreover, earlier the commander of the Dnepr battalion, Yuriy Bereza, accused General Litvin of shamefully fleeing the battlefield, which resulted in the encirclement near Ilovaisk.
"General Litvin fled, abandoning all weapons. It was he who allowed the enemy to capture Savur-Mogila, thereby exposing our rear. And he said nothing to us, who were defending Ilovaisk. If we had known about this, the situation would have been completely different. And what kind of general is he if he didn't even know the battle map! The Russians at Ilovaisk could have been stopped. And what's interesting is that Litvin and his soldiers fled literally in full view of the Russians. And they didn't shoot at them. Strange...," the battalion commander told reporters yesterday.
He also expressed confidence that after Ilovaisk, a new army will emerge in Ukraine.
"We just need to purge it of cowards and traitors. And first of all, the Minister of Defense and the Chief of the General Staff must resign. And General Petro Lytvyn must be brought to trial. If this doesn't happen, we'll impale them all," Yuriy Bereza said of the mood in Ukrainian combat units.
As a reminder, Petro Lytvyn is also the brother of Ukrainian MP Volodymyr Lytvyn and former Speaker of the House of Representatives Volodymyr Lytvyn. Another of Lytvyn's brothers heads the Ukrainian Border Service.
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