The “planned, cynical Russian war crime” during the battle of Ilovaisk in 2014 “will never (be allowed) to go unpunished,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said on the day of commemoration of fallen Ukrainian defenders on Aug. 29. Russian forces and their proxies massacred over 360 Ukrainian soldiers as they were retreating through an agreed-upon corridor from the besieged city of Ilovaisk in Donetsk Oblast in August 2014. More than 400 Ukrainian troops were wounded, and around 300 were captured. It was the single largest loss on Ukraine’s side up until that point of the Donbas war, which was laun…
