"The last I saw him was at his wedding last September.
It can't be him.' He is such a nice gentleman," says Arvilla Lhotka. His grandmother, Arvilla Lhotka, says she she was told Jesse died in an explosion caused by a roadside bomb.
They say he's aware of Day's death.Ī second Minnesota soldier reported killed was also newly married, Sgt. Louis Park police officer is currently serving in Iraq. "And all the soldiers that were also police officers were putting up patches from the various agencies."ĭiLorenzo says the package with the patches is on its way over. "He had mentioned that it would be nice if we sent him some patches off of our uniforms, because there was a board placed up in the area where they congregated," says DiLorenzo. He says the last message they got from Day was a few days before he died. Kirk DiLorenzo says Day kept in touch with members of the force through e-mail. Louis Park Police Department and our community. He was honest, decent and hard-working," says Luse. "As the father of two daughters, I can tell you that David Day was the type of young man every father wants his daughter to marry. Police Chief John Luse says Day was an ideal police officer and person. He had married his high school sweetheart just before he left last fall. Louis Park Police Department for about eight months before his deployment to Iraq.
She said he joined the National Guard so he could pay for his training to become a police officer.ĭay had been a member of the St. Some Azov soldiers have also died at the plant, but it remained unclear how many.LaVonne Day said her grandson was loved by his family and community, active in sports, and an Eagle Scout. Kyiv on Tuesday said more than 1,000 fighters remained trapped inside the besieged Azovstal steel plant in the southern port city of Mariupol, hundreds of whom are injured. It is now known as the "Azov Regiment" and has a reputation for being a tough fighting unit. It has since shaken off the far-right ideology and been integrated into the National Guard, experts say. Previously known as the "Azov Battalion," the unit was created in 2014 by far-right activists and first deployed against pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine's National Guard, which falls under the interior ministry, was created in March 2014 as Russia seized control of the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea and massed troops on Ukraine's eastern border.īy law, it can have up to 60,000 soldiers in its ranks and has notably absorbed several self-defense groups that were on the front line of the 2014 Maidan revolution, as well as various nationalist outfits like Azov. In mid-April, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said between 2,500 and 3,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed while around 10,000 others had been wounded, admitting it was "difficult to say how many of them would survive.” Wednesday's statement marked a rare move as both Ukrainian and Russian officials have been tight-lipped about their losses in the war.įigures about troops killed in battle have very rarely been released by Ukrainian officials, with neither the defense ministry in Kyiv nor its counterpart in Moscow offering any information on their own military losses. Over 560 soldiers from Ukraine's National Guard, a force that includes the Azov regiment currently holed up in Mariupol's steelworks, have been killed since the war with Russia began, its leader said Wednesday.īesides the 561 dead, an additional 1,697 troops had been wounded since the invasion began on February 24, National Guard chief Oleksiy Nadtochy said in an online briefing.
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