Russian Man Returning To War In Ukraine From Funeral Of Father Killed In Same War Dies In Road Traffic Accident
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Right by the monument to fallen soldiers.
A Russian military man was killed in a road accident while returning to the war in Ukraine after burying his father, who was also killed in the same war. The incident occurred near the memorial to soldiers who did not return from the war, the Russian edition of V1 writes.
Denis Dotsenko, 31, who worked as a driver, was mobilised to take part in the Russian invasion of Ukraine in September 2022. In December 2024, Dotsenko travelled to attend the funeral of his father, who also took part in the war against Ukraine and died in the fighting.
On the night of January 2, Dotsenko, returning to the front, stopped at the memorial to the ‘Never Returned’ on the M-4 Don motorway. His wife called him to inform him of the birth of his daughter. Right at that moment he was hit by a car.
‘Denis came on holiday to bury his father. They said goodbye to him on December 6. <...> On January 2, he was on his way back, on the SMO. Before Rostov he stopped and got out of the car. At that moment his wife called him and told him that she had just given birth to a daughter. And he was hit by a car immediately after hearing this news. It happened at about 04.30 in the morning’, Dotsenko's acquaintances told the publication. ‘We still can't come to our senses, because a month ago was just the funeral of his father, also a member of the SMO, can you imagine? Such a tragedy... Not even in battle, but just in a road accident, it's terrible’.
The ‘Never Returned’ memorial complex, near where the accident occurred, is located between Rostov-on-Don and Novoshakhtinsk. It is ‘dedicated to the soldiers who did not return from the battlefields. On one side of the road is a stele with cranes flying away into oblivion, and on the other side is a sculpture of a motherland waiting for her sons,’ the Russian publication explained.
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