How can you bury a soldier outside the place of residence? At the place of registration...?

Anastasiia Novikova
30.05.2023 15:38 • Question

...he has not lived for a long time, his parents and relatives are not there. They want to bury him in the city where he served and lived for the last 10 years with his wife. How to achieve this?

1 Answers

Lorina Fedan

Answer provided 31.05.2023 20:06

If they want to carry out the burial at the place of service, it is legal. The instruction of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine "On the organization of the burial of servicemen who died (died) during military service" provides that in the event of a serviceman being buried at the place of service, the commissar at the place of enlistment of the deceased after receiving a notification and a death certificate, which must be sent by the commander of the military the unit where the serviceman served, within a seven-day period is obliged to personally deliver a death notice, death certificate and photographs from the place of burial to the family or relatives of the deceased serviceman, as well as express condolences to them.

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