SAINT PETERSBURG: Filled with patriotic bravado and a thirst for adventure, Yevgeny Pavlenko and his friend Yevgeny Markin volunteered with dozens others to leave their home in Russia to go and fight in eastern Ukraine.
But only one of the two would survive. Markin, 25, accompanied Pavlenko’s remains back to the city of Saint-Petersburg for burial after he was killed in bitter fighting alongside pro-Russian separatists who seized the Ukrainian town of Debaltseve in late February.
Pavlenko, 35, was one of four volunteers to be buried in the past two weeks from the northwestern city, where organisations helping Russians of all …read more
Source: theSun
