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The only two foes to die in Russia's Crimea takeover are mourned together
Sunday, March 23, 2014 10:17
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Via Billy
In a room thick with the smoke of incense, beneath a glitter ball used in happier times, four shaven-headed Ukrainian soldiers stood to attention.
They wore no caps, and sleeves of their blotchy camouflage coats bore the red armbands of pall bearers, for between them lay a fifth soldier.
This was the guard of honour for Prapushik Sergei Kokorin, the first – and at the time of writing only – Ukrainian serviceman to die during the Russian invasion of Crimea.
Incongruously, the Ukrainian mourners were not alone. Next to them, four bare-headed, pro-Russian Cossacks in formal blue uniforms stood their own watch over Ruslan Kazakov – their own single casualty of this hitherto bloodless annexation.
Both men were killed on Tuesday night during a murky incident at a Ukrainian military installation in Simferopol.
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Source: http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-only-two-foes-to-die-in-russias.html
