Russia buries its soldiers and continues its 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 had been 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 this little boy went there to murder, no. He went to defend the civilians, save the children hidden in the cellars”says Irina Avrov, Nikita’s grandmother. Despite the disappearance of the young man, his family supports “the special operation”, as power always calls 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.