This was announced on November 29 by the head of the investigative department of the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Kharkiv region

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"Currently, the DNA profile check has been completed and it has been confirmed that the deceased #319 at the Izyum cemetery is Vladimir Vakulenko.

Two bullets from Makarov's pistol were found in the body," he wrote on Facebook.

• Uladzimir Vakulenko is a children's writer, poet, laureate of numerous literary awards.

  At the beginning of October 2020, thanks to the writer's ideas and initiative, an anthology of Belarusian poetry "Long live Belarus!" was published in Ukraine.

  For our freedom and yours!".

  The anthology includes the works of 33 Belarusian authors, which were translated by 28 translators from four countries: Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland.