Candles, sunflowers and tears. The victims of Ilovaysk were commemorated in Uzhgorod (PHOTO-REPORT)

An informal event to commemorate the victims of the Ilovaysk tragedy took place in Uzhgorod.

Those, who consider the date of August 29 – the Day of remembrance of the killed Ukrainian soldiers – important gathered on Teatralna Square. There were veterans of the Russian-Ukrainian War, youth, volunteers, families of the soldiers, other Uzhgorod residents.

Hundreds of Ukrainians were killed, wounded and captured in the Ilovaysk entrapment, which became the darkest page of the recent history of Ukraine, and the exact number of losses is still unknown.