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There is blood on the hands of Dimitri Lisitzki († 48). He was responsible for the Ilovaisk massacre. Now the Russian is dead and the grief in his homeland is great. “The memory of his deeds will live on in our hearts,” his former director writes about him.
The 2014 Battle of Ilovaysk was the first major defeat suffered by the Ukrainians in Donbas after the annexation of Crimea. Volunteer Ukrainian fighters fought against Russian soldiers for weeks. 7000 Ukrainians were surrounded. Russian President Vladimir Putin (70) promised that a humanitarian corridor would be set up – but that turned out to be an ambush.
When the unarmed Ukrainians used the corridor, they were fired upon with mortars, artillery and tanks. 366 unarmed men were killed. 300 Ukrainians were taken prisoner and about 450 were wounded.
Lisitzki gave the order to break the truce
According to the Russian investigative portal The Insider, the order to break the agreed ceasefire was given by a man named Lisitzki. For his efforts, Putin awarded him the Gold Star medal in 2015, and he became a hero.
There is hardly a Russian military operation in which Lisitzki was not involved. He took part in the battles in Abkhazia, Dagestan and Yugoslavia, Syria and Donbas. The news service News.ru writes that since 2022 the commander has served in “Novorossiya” (Editor’s note, in German: “New Russia”) – that is, in Donetsk and Luhansk.
Suicide or revenge of Ukrainians?
How Lisitzki died is unclear. Yuriy Butuzov, editor-in-chief of the online portal Censor, reported that the Ukrainians retaliated and killed him.
Russian media, on the other hand, claim that Lisitzki shot himself with a shotgun. According to his friends and acquaintances, Lisitzki suffered from depression and talked about suicide when he received a “complaint about his misconduct towards his colleagues”.
“He knew what it was like to be a real man, to love the fatherland and to stay in the ranks until victory,” writes the director of his former university in Sevastopol, Vladimir Sitinkov, about his former student on Telegram . The Russian Defense Ministry has so far remained silent about the death of the “fallen hero”. (jwg)
Source: Blick
I am Amelia James, a passionate journalist with a deep-rooted interest in current affairs. I have more than five years of experience in the media industry, working both as an author and editor for 24 Instant News. My main focus lies in international news, particularly regional conflicts and political issues around the world.
