The shelling of Makiivka: more soldiers died there than the Russian Ministry of Defense reported
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On the basis of open data, the BBC was able to identify the names of 92 servicemen who died during the shelling of a vocational school in Makiivka near Donetsk. This is three people more than the figure of the dead, a large Russian Ministry of Defense has named. The families of at least 16 other military personnel cannot be found among the dead or among those around them.
Relatives of the mobilized Mikhail Sergeev were sent to all possible cases in early January.
No response from woman turned to fortunetellers: “Sergeev Mikhail Mikhailovich disappeared on January 1, 2023 after shelling a vocational school in Makeevka. Is he alive? Which hospital? If not alive, is the body in the morgue? Will he be found?
Unlike the officials, the occultists responded quickly, but their opinions were divided. He says that the guy is “very weak, but he will survive”, others – that he is no more. Obsharovka reported that Mikhail was dead.
Data on the dead in this text upon discovery of traces of probable dead Russian servicemen, which the BBC considers frequent with the publication of Mediazon (recognized in Russia as a “media-foreign agent”)a team of volunteers to search for sources.
A strike on the building of a vocational school in Makeyevka, where citizens of the Russian Federation were located, on the night of January 1. On January 4, the Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed the death of 89 people, and has not commented on the situation since. The Ukrainian side spoke about hundreds of dead.
Petition demanding the release of the names of the dead scored Already almost 55 thousand subscriptions. Most of the dead and wounded are mobilized from the Samara region. But Andrey Vdovin, the military commissar of the Samara region, said that the names of the soldiers who came under fire in Makeyevka would not be published anyway.
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According to the observation of relatives, the majority of those killed during the shelling of Makiivka were received at the end of September – shortly after the announcement of “private mobilization”. Then, for about two months, they were trained in the military units of the Samara region.
The order to send those mobilized as part of the hostilities received in mid-December and arrived in Makeevka on the territory of the Donetsk region of Ukraine on December 26. On the night of January 1, the building, in which there were domestic residents, was fired from the MLRS HIMARS.
The name of the first Russian soldier who died during the shelling of Makeyevka appeared on January 2. On the death of Alexander Krasheninnikov allocated on the page of the Samara Church of St. John the Evangelist (the fact that the military man died in Makeevka, confirmed a little bit later). .
“Before leaving, Alexander always took a blessing for the ascension of the military from Father Nikolai,” the post specified. From the first day of the war, the patriarch and all the metropolitans of the Russian Orthodox Church on the events in Ukraine.
Four burials of the dead in Makiivka took place on January 7 and 8. As experts identify the bodies, coffins with mobilized people continue to be brought in the Samara region. Funerals are almost daily. The youngest of the dead we discovered was 22 years old, the oldest – 48 years old.
In the dense settlement of Obsharovka with a population of about 5600 inhabitants, three coffins with mobilized people have already arrived. One of them is the same Mikhail Sergeev, who discovers the discovery with the help of tarologists and psychics.
Judging by the publications in the graves, even less as three thousand coffins came to the small village of Mirny (population about 7 people).
Among the dead in Makiivka is Alexander Chudov from Samara. Together with his wife Maria, they raised two children, one of whom was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. After the start of the mobilization, Maria stimulates the development of a deferral for her husband, but officials told her that there are no concessions under the law for fathers of disabled children.
The Russian Ministry of Defense released that it was the perpetrators themselves who mobilized for being fired upon. According to military officials, soldiers actively used cell phones on New Year’s Eve.
This version is also criticized by relatives of soldiers infected and even supporting the Kremlin, journalists and bloggers. They pay attention to the fact that for some reason the military corps was in the same formation as the entire ammunition load, and there was also a lot of equipment. Moreover, it is known that during the shelling of HIMARS missiles in Russia, there is almost no cellular communication.
selected significant public interest in the shelling of the vocational school building on the night of January 1, 2023 and important topics, the BBC published a list of Russian military dead in Makiivka, which could be identified on the basis of open sources.
We only entered the names of the military, as if it was in Makiivka and whose death, who confirmed it on the Russian side. This list may not be complete and will be updated.
Lost without a vestibule
In the open sources of the BBC, there were also mentions of 15 military men living in Makiivka at the time of the shelling, whose fate after January 1 cannot be established.
“We applied to the reception of the governor of the Samara region – silence. As well as the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the military commissariat. The answer is ‘no information’. They called all the possible hospitals of the country’s hospitals – [отвечают] “there are none,” wrote relatives of three Samara military men who did not get in touch after the shelling of Makiivka.
“After all my returns, I had a desire. [Кажется]that no one seems to me, that no one needs them, ”Svetlana, the sister of the mobilized Semyon Kashtanov, told Vkontakte.
Semyon was mobilized in the autumn. Then, for about two months, I was trained in a military unit in the Samara region. The order to send those mobilized as part of the hostilities received in mid-December and arrived in Makeevka on the territory of the Donetsk region on December 26. Until December 31, the man kept in touch with his relatives, but after the shelling there was no news from him.
“To our appeal for an inquiry to hospitals about unidentified wounded who are not able to report themselves, the answer was this. They disturb my brother’s phone, asking, “What’s the matter with you and where are you?” I have no words! Wake up, do you think we’re idiots for not thinking of this ourselves?” – says Svetlana.
We chose several families of DNA material to compare with the data of those who died during the shelling. But so far, they have not been informed of the coincidences.
A week ago, there were four more names on the list of missing persons. But then the bodies of Yevgeny Almazov, Maxim Kopeiko, Mikhail Sergeev and Nikita Kalyakin were identified and brought home. All of them have already been buried.
“The miracle did not happen,” wrote the widow of one of the victims.
The families of other soldiers who went missing after the shelling of Makiivka are still not resolutely hopeful.
In total, on January 23, 12,225 dead soldiers and officers who died after the start of a full-scale war of Russia against Ukraine were found.
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BBC investigation at the Ministry of Defense to identify those killed in the shelling in Makiivka and the expected response.
How do we translate
In Russia, every day more and more new names of the dead and photographs from the funeral are registered. The names of those who died during the shelling of a vocational school in Makeevka are being established, we took into account the publications of local officials, the media and educational institutions where the victims had previously studied, as well as publications of close relatives of the victims.
We learned only about those dead who have a surname and a name.
we believe that unrealized data on real losses have been found.