Ukraine's deadliest day: The battle of Ilovaisk, August 2014
By Viacheslav Shramovych BBC Ukrainian
29 August 2019
It was the biggest loss of life in Ukraine's war against Russian-backed separatists.
Hundreds of soldiers died as the Ukrainian army and volunteers retreated in a column from the eastern town of Ilovaisk on 29 August 2014.
Ukrainian veterans are adamant the Russian army was there, even though Moscow has always denied claims that regular Russian forces took part in the battle.
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Many Ukrainians have left the country, not fleeing the war necessarily but for economic opportunity, 2 million in Poland, many in the UK. It just makes me think a bit of those who have remained and who have gone up to the front line.
