As the result of the investigation there should be named commanders responsible of the tragic events in Ilovaisk (August,2014) in Donetsk Region, Eastern Ukraine when the road to strategic town Ilovaisk was cut off by Russian troops and Ukrainian soldiers were taken into encirclement betrayed and killed by Russian militants. In The Battle of Ilovaisk (August 30, 2014) about 1000 people of the Ukrainian forces were killed, wounded and missing.
Ukrainian Chief military prosecutor Anatolii Matios states that investigative commission on Ilovaisk encirclement has finished its work and will soon show the results:
“Ilovaisk encirclement investigation is actually finished,” said Anatolii Matios.
Still nobody was punished for the tragedy, though the investigations have continued all the time. Actually on 4 September 2014, 11 deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine created provisional investigatory commission on investigation of circumstances of the Ilovaisk tragedy and stated that ATO commander Viktor Muzhenko and Defense Minister Valerii Heletei are fully responsible for the deaths of Ukrainian soldiers.