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Soldier disarmed suspected mine on Yuri Prilipko’s body and helped cleric load the corpse onto a wheelbarrow

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Yuli Prilipko was driving down Hostomel’s central street on March 7 when a column of Russian vehicles opened fire on his car
A Russian soldier stopped a Ukrainian priest from approaching the boobytrapped body of a mayor who had been killed by invading troops.

The soldier disarmed the suspected mine on Yuri Prilipko’s body and helped the cleric load the corpse onto a wheelbarrow in an apparent change of heart.

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Mr Prilipko’s daughter, Nadiya, confirmed her father’s death in the occupied town of Hostomel, which is to the north east of Kyiv, Ukrainian media reported.

Mr Prilipko was driving down Hostomel’s central street on March 7 when a column of Russian vehicles opened fire on the car, which was carrying four passengers and delivering food and medicine.

“They turned around and drove into the lane, which was blocked by a tractor. There was nowhere else to go and all the passengers jumped out of the car,” said Nadiya.

“There were snipers in the nearby Pokrovsky residential complex and fired on everything around them. My father and two other boys were shot, and two managed to escape.”

It was later discovered that his body had been boobytrapped by the Russians when a local priest came to pick it up. A Russian soldier stopped him from approaching the body and disarmed the mine.

“When the Father approached the body, he was stopped by the Russian occupier and told not to approach. The Russian removed wiring or something and only then helped to load the body on the wheelbarrow,” Rostyslav Skurativskyi, an adviser to the mayor, told Slidstvo.Info

The mayor was later buried by the priest. Nadiya confirmed the story to Ukrainian journalists.

Hostomel has been under Russian control for a week and there are accusations that soldiers have taken civilian hostages.

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