National Guard soldier injured during attack on Luhansk military unit dies

“Today, on May 30, 2014, from gunshot wounds to the head received
during an attack by armed militants on the battalion, at 3 pm, Sergeant
Dmytro Shelemin died in the intensive care department of the hospital,”
she said.

As reported, five people were injured and hospitalized during the
storming of the Ukrainian National Guard military base No. 3035 in
Luhansk on Wednesday evening.

As a result of an overnight standoff the militants managed to seize
several buildings on the grounds of the National Guard base, as well as
“part of law enforcers’ weapons,” the National Guard reported.

Later, a spokesperson for the Luhansk regional police said that one
of the injured was a soldier. He was shot in the head and suffered brain
damage.