It is a sand track, well hidden in the pines, on the highway which links kyiv to Odessa, in the Hatne region. The draft of a strap freshly dug by bulldozers, not yet signalized, suggests a huge project. This is the highway release that will serve the future military memorial in Ukraine. A gigantic, highly sensitive project, not only because ecoactivists and the inhabitants of the small village of Markhalivka, 40 kilometers from the capital but at the foot of the future cemetery, are worried about deforestation or tranquility in the area.
In the village, only a brand new brown panel, color reserved for sites Nationals, for the moment indicates the road that leads the trucks to the site. It is written in English : « National Military Memorial Cemetery »national military cemetery. A first square of 10,000 burials, already partially dotted with large alleys of clear granite, bordered by benches and linden, will welcome this summer the first body of “Heroes”. But, in the long term, they are “130,000 or even 160,000” Defunted that this future mortuary site is preparing to receive, specifies, under the bright sun of a Saturday in July, the architect Serhi Derbin, khaki linen pants and straw panama.
“Here, the future entryexplains the young man at the head of this project of more than 37 million euros. Below, a shelter for 300 people, in case of bombing. »» A real bunker, a first for a cemetery. Again, a “House of mourning” For ceremonies, in case of cold or rain. “And here the memorial”continues the architect by drawing in a large reel of arms the 120 hectares intended for the future cemetery, and the horizon of 260 hectares of domain.
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