Farewell to underage guerrillas killed by Russian snipers to be held in Berdyansk

This was reported by the Berdyansk City Military Administration.

The funeral will be held in the Church of St Nicholas at Melitopol Highway 56. At 11:00 am, the funeral of Mykyta will take place, and at 12:00 pm - of Tigran.

Earlier, the head of the city's military administration, Victoria Galitsyna, told Suspilne that Russian snipers had killed the underage guerrillas in Berdyansk, and their parents had not yet received access to their bodies.

She noted that it is still not known what exactly preceded the murder of the boys and under what circumstances the crime took place. Galitsyna also said that it is possible that the bodies of the deceased Tyhran and Mykyta will be handed over to their families today.

"According to the latest information, the parents of the deceased teenagers have not yet been allowed to see the bodies of their children. Perhaps they will be handed over today, it is difficult to say for sure. We know that the children were killed by Russian snipers. But what preceded it, under what circumstances it happened, is not yet known," explained the official.

She also said that the case files on the boys had been handed over to the Security Service of Ukraine.

"Previously, the Russians accused the boys of attempting to sabotage the railway and took them into custody, where they were subjected to pressure and abuse. This is a war crime for which the occupiers must be held accountable. Criminal proceedings have been opened. The materials have been transferred to the SBU and the prosecutor's office, statements are written and registered in the Unified register of pre-trial investigations," Galitsyna said.

• On the evening of 24 June, the occupying head of Zaporizhzhia region, Vladimir Rogov, said that two underage Ukrainian partisans had been killed in Berdyansk. Rogov claimed that at 7:00 pm on 24 June, the boys "opened fire on the embankment, where there were civilians", and he named Tyhran Ohanisyan, a minor, as one of the "culprits". The coordinator of the Media Initiative for Human Rights, Olha Reshetylova, said that the second guerrilla killed was Mykyta Khanganov. Both boys were born in 2006. More information about the story of Tyhran and Mykyta can be found here.