BATINA, May 9
(Hina) - On the occasion of Victory Day in memory of
the defeat of the Fascist forces at the end of the Second World War,
delegations of the Croatian authorities and the embassies of Russia,
Ukraine, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan on Wednesday laid wreaths
in front of the WWII monument in the eastern Croatian village of
Batina, erected in memory of the Yugoslav Partisans and the Red Army
troops who gave their lives during the Battle of Batina in November
1944.
In the battle against the German Wehrmacht and its allies in that village on the right bank of the Danube River, an estimated 2000 Red Army troops were killed.
The monument, made by sculptor Antun Augustincic in 1947, also includes a ossuary with the remains of 1,297 Red Army soldiers.