in Russia, bury the soldiers on the background of propaganda

Since Monday April 11, Anastasia Avrov has returned every day to her son’s grave in Louga (Russia). Nikita was 20 years old. Engaged in a Russian cavalry regiment, he died in combat near Kharkiv (Ukraine) at the end of March. “As he is a tanker, we were first told that only his tank was blown up. Then later we learned that the whole unit had been attacked“, says Anastasia. The body of the young man was repatriated 12 days later, in a closed coffin.

At the funeral, a city official said he sacrificed himself to fight neo-Nazis and nationalists. “Let no one say that little boy went there to murder, no. He went to defend the civilians, save the children hidden in the cellars, so that everything would go well for them“says Irina Avrov, Nikita’s grandmother.

Despite the disappearance of their child, the family supports the special operation, as the authorities still call it. In the Louga cemetery, everything is ready to receive the remains of other soldiers. In the city of 30,000 inhabitants, located 700 km from Moscow, the inhabitants are proud of their army. Nikita’s family thus has no doubts about the behavior of the young man in war, nor about that of other Russian units, which they consider exemplary.