According to activists, the burial in the selected place is fraught with an environmental disaster: construction is carried out on a land with a high level of groundwater. Therefore, graves can be flooded, which poses a threat to 12 villages of the Kyiv region.
A resident of Markovka and the head of the Markhalovka. Support, Alexander Davydenko told reporters about a large number of security forces and the detention of protesters. The community announced the detention of supposedly “about a dozen” local residents.
“There is a bunch of autosaks. And all the women who were there with posters were packed. Our lawyer, who is traveling from Kyiv, is blocked. He stands motionless with other cars in the direction from Kyiv to the cornflowers. The movement was stopped,” said Davidenko.
The opening was present President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, Minister of Defense Denis Shmygal, head of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk and Minister for Veterans Affairs Natalya Kalmykova.
Kalmykova admitted in the commentary to the “suspension” that there was groundwater at the site of the cemetery, “like throughout the country” and “this is normal”.
“So that there are no questions, a drainage system is laid under all paths. All these paths at a depth of falling from 2.5 m to 3 m, which work. And if you go into the grave now, it is absolutely dry,” the official said.
The Support Markhalivka community on Facebook published the video “5 of the channels”, which claims that the journalists were not allowed into the NVMK territory after the motorcade with officials left the territory. A man in the form who introduced himself as a military personnel of the National Guard of Ukraine refused to pass the crew, but did not name the name. According to him, he “has an order from his command.”
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The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in October 2022 approved the creation of the Ministry of Chators of the NVMK.
During the construction, Ukraine will take an example from the Arlington cemetery in the United States, in April 2023, the then Ministry of Veterans, Julia Laputina, said in an interview with CNN. “This will be a memorial not only to our heroes of the Russian-Ukrainian war, but also to all defenders and defenders of our country, participants in the struggle of Ukraine for their independence in different historical periods,” she said.
On August 19, the Cabinet of Ministers adopted a decision on the construction of the National Military Memorial Cemetery in the Gatnenskaya community near Kiev.
On December 8, 2023, the Rada adopted the law necessary for the construction and operation of the NVMK. “Construction will be carried out in several queues. The first will build a sector of traditional burials, columbarium, an area where farewell to fallen defenders and defenders, and the necessary buildings for the organization of burials,” the government said on February 23, 2024.
On March 15, the Cabinet of Ministers adopted an order on the location of the NVMK in the Gatnenskaya rural community of the Fastovsky district of the Kyiv region.
