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May 19. (EUROPE PRESS) –
At least five Belarusians who were part of a volunteer regiment fighting alongside Ukrainian troops against the Russian Army have died in the fighting in the city of Bakhmut (east), as confirmed this Friday by the Belarusian opposition leader, Svetlana Tijanovskaya.
“Saddened by the death of five members of the Kastus Kalinouski Regiment who were fighting for Ukraine in Bakhmut,” Tijanovskaya said on her Twitter account. “The regiment has indicated that a commander has been killed while trying to facilitate the evacuation of the wounded,” she detailed.
Thus, it has specified that “four dead soldiers are still buried under the rubble after their building was hit by enemy artillery fire and (their bodies) have not been able to be recovered for now.”
“The fighting continues,” he said, before stressing that “these Belarusian volunteers have made the ultimate sacrifice for the freedom of our countries.” “They will be remembered forever as true heroes of Belarus and Ukraine,” she stressed.
The Kastus Kalinouski Regiment indicates on its official Twitter account that it is “a military formation within the Armed Forces of Ukraine made up of Belarusian volunteers.” Minsk, an ally of Moscow, has not yet ruled on the death of these five people in the fighting in Bakhmut.
Bakhmut has become in recent weeks a key point in the military field but also symbolic, since the Russian authorities and the Wagner Group, an ally of the Kremlin, made its conquest practically certain and marked the capture of this town as a turning point for move on to other areas.
