They were awarded determined

In the village of Pskov region, in the morning on Monday, the funeral of paratroopers who died under unknown circumstances was held, the elephant publication reports with reference to local sources.

The funeral went to the cemetery next to the military training ground and the military unit, in which the 76th Chernigov Division of the Airborne Forces is based. An eyewitness to the funeral service of the dead, on which about a hundred people were present, said that the date and circumstances of the death of the fighters were not called, only names were announced.

Another source of the Elephant in Pskov was found on the outskirts of the cemetery in the rabute two fresh graves with wreaths from the units of the Pskov Airborne Forces. The graves belong to the fighters of Kichatkin and Osipov.

Information about the death of Leonid Kichatkina appeared on the network on Sunday. The journalist of the "Russian Planet" Ilya Vasyunin posted on Twitter a screenshot of the Page of Kichatkin on VKontakte, which was later removed. A message appeared on this page about the death of Kichatkin on behalf of his wife Oksana. However, when Vasyunin phoned the paratrooper family on the phone, he was assured that Kichatkin was alive. Moreover, a man told the journalist that he was Leonid Kichatkin.

On August 21, Ukrainian journalists posted on the Internet indirect evidence of the presence of the Pskov paratroopers in the Lugansk region - documents with the names of fighters, weapons, landing berets are visible in the published photographs.

In the Russian Ministry of Defense, information about the presence of the Russian military in Ukraine once again categorically refuted.

On August 18, Vladimir Putin with a special decree awarded the Order of Suvorov with the 76th Chernihiv Division of the Airborne Forces, based in the Pskov region, "for the successful implementation of the command tasks of the command and the courage and heroism shown by personnel." The head of the Ministry of Defense, who specially arrived in Pskov on this occasion, made it clear that the division was awarded the aggregate of combat merits, including for actions during the referendum in the Crimea.

Meanwhile, Russian journalists and bloggers drew attention to the sudden termination of activity in the VKontakte accounts owned by some Pskov paratroopers. Blogger Viktor Kadochnikov noted that in a whole group of accounts, which were previously actively updated, the last days of the call of steel were on August 15 and 16.

“One person went on August 17. That's it! After August 17, not one of the list appeared below the site. Apparently, there was some kind of battle on August 15-16, and most of them are no longer alive,” the cadrers wrote in the “Live Journal”.

Earlier, the Dagestan publication "Chernivik" reported the death of at least ten natives of the region in Ukraine. According to the sources of the publication, the sending of contractors to the border regions of Russia is “voluntary-rendering” in nature. “Those who refuse, for example, can be taken to a parade ground and be accused of cowardice and so on before the system. That is, there is moral pressure,” the paratrooper, who wished to remain unnamed, told the publication.