The Ministry of Veterans told when the first burials at the NVMK began
Illustration to NMVK Project
Veterans’ ministry
The first burials at the National Military Memorial Cemetery are planned to start in May 2025.
About it reported Veterans Minister Natalia Kalmykova during the « Hour Questions to the Government » in the Verkhovna Rada.
« We have finally, at the 12th year of the war, start decent, with the necessary honors, burial of our defenders and defenders. All is happening under current legislation. We plan to start the first burials in May this year, » She said.
The minister also stressed that the Ministry of Justice is constantly in touch with the families of the dead who regularly visit the cemetery.
We will remind, the discussion of the creation of NVMC for honoring the memory of the fallen defenders of Ukraine began in 2022. First to build it planned in the tract « Lisa Gora », but it caused resistance activists and government.
Then considered Bikivnyansky graves reserve. However It turned outIn its territory there may be old burials and unmodelized bodies of victims of Stalinist repression.
Then the government Moved construction NVMK to the Gatnen community near Kiev. But local They began to protest Due to possible contamination of groundwater and destruction of forest.
However, the project of the National Military Memorial Cemetery is still He passed the state examination.
In July, the Ministry of Justice reportedthat the first burials at the NVMC will begin in the fall of 2024. However, this did not happen.
In January 2025 The appeals were published to the President, the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Veterans on the National Military Memorial Cemetery. In it, military personnel, relatives of the dead military, representatives of civil society and media, urged the authorities to hold an open competition for the project and the construction of the Main Military Memorial of Ukraine.
The signatories expressed dissatisfaction with some stages of creation of NVMK: « tenders » for a sketch project, the choice of construction contractor, as well as the appointment of the chief architect of NBMC Sergey Derbin, who in 2015 went to Moscow.
February 10 National Union of Architects of Ukraine and the Architectural Chamber of NSAU called hold an open competition for the best prompt proposal for the construction of a national military memorial cemetery.
