Today, two high-profile charity concerts took place in Sokal and Sosnivka, which outraged readers. Golos Sokalshchyny tried to find out what outraged the community residents, despite the sad news.
What the residents of the Sokal community were outraged about
On 17 August, Sokal met the body of its defender, the Hero Artem Hegeshko. With tears in their eyes, feelings of regret and despair, the residents of the community came out to the main road to meet the body of the fallen Hero in Sokal with dignity.
17 August was declared the Day of Mourning for the deceased Artem, as reported by the Sokal City Council:
The Secretary of the Sokal City Council, Igor Sidor, was in charge of monitoring the implementation of this order.
At the same time, on 17 August, a charity concert “Rhythms of the Bug” was organised in Sokal on the river embankment at the kayak centre:
Here are some comments on the charity concert in Sokal, which took place on this sad day:
Andriy Babukh: Music for our poor, war-tired youth…. And I thought we were still at war!!!? Cossacks are brought home on a shield, and you kids don’t worry, dance….
Natalia Yurchyshyn: In the room of sorrow, the newest Hero Artem awaits his final journey tomorrow
And all over Sokal, there are musos and “I can’t hear you”… But it’s clear that he can’t hear – it’s almost midnight! Today the bottom has been finally broken!
Yurii Korin: Spanish shame means “shame for another”. This feeling was probably felt by many residents of Sokal tonight…
Many outrageous comments can be seen under the posts on Facebook.
Whether it was possible to hold the concert later or to cancel it altogether is a question to which we will never hear an answer. It should also be added that in the Chervonohrad district, farewells were also held in the Chervonohrad and Belz communities. On 17 August, residents of Chervonohrad received another sad news from the frontline – Hero Serhiy Voroshyk, born in 1992, died. The soldier, a gunner-operator of the mechanised unit of the military unit A4638, Serhiy Voroshyk was killed on 15 August while performing a combat mission near the village of Novovodyane, Luhansk region.
Also today, the community of Siletsk said goodbye to the Hero Volodymyr Fiyalo. The soldier was buried at the Siletsk cemetery
Despite the fact that the Belz community, which borders on Chervonohrad, also said goodbye to defender Ivan Teterko today, a charity concert in Sosnivka.