Dead and Alive

The Russian state is trying to hide the fact that it sends its sons to war, how they die and where the funeral is held.

Fourteen years ago, in March 2000, the death of the 6th company of the 104th regiment of the 76th airborne division became known after the list of the dead was secretly transferred from the division to journalist Oleg Konstantinov and published in part on March 6 (more than 60 names) in the city newspaper "News of Pskov", and on March 14, the day of the Pskov funeral, 83 names out of 84 were named on the front page of the publication. After the publication on March 6, the death of the paratroopers in a conversation with the governor of the Pskov region, Evgeny Mikhailov, was confirmed on March 7 by the then commander of the Airborne Forces, Georgy Shpak , and the governor did not hide this terrible truth from society.

Only a week after the battle at an altitude of 776.0 the death of the 6th company was officially announced (in the first days, official representatives of the OGV in the North Caucasus denied not only the scale of losses, but even the fact of the battle itself, and regiment commander Sergei Melentyev had to, while mourning the dead, not talk about the very fact of terrible losses). His tragic death under still unclear circumstances was perceived by all relatives and colleagues unequivocally: he became 85th .

Literally the whole of Pskov buried the dead of the 6th company on March 14, 2000. Whoever was there remembers.

In August 2014, the political and military leadership of the country did not recognize either the fact of participation of Russian military personnel in hostilities on the territory of Ukraine, or the facts of noticeable combat losses. The funerals of the dead take place in an almost secret, almost secret atmosphere.

In what war and for whom did these young guys die? Why does the Russian state need this silence now and how long does it hope to hide something that is completely impossible to hide?

On August 25, near Pskov, at the Vybuty churchyard, two servicemen were buried: Leonid Yuryevich Kichatkin (09/30/1984 - 08/19/2014) and Alexander Sergeevich Osipov (12/15/1993 - 08/20/2014).

These are not the first people killed on the Russian-Ukrainian front to be buried in Pskov. But Leonid’s wife wrote about the funeral in Vybuty on a social network, and the sad event turned out to be known in advance.

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Airborne Forces commander Vladimir Shamanov claim that the 76th division does not take part in hostilities on the territory of Ukraine and, accordingly, did not suffer combat losses.

Meanwhile, everyone who came to the funeral could see that the division buried the dead.

People from all over the country, from the republics of the former USSR, Pskovites living in Europe, are now writing letters to Pskov with one question: “What is happening? Why are commanders silent? Why is everyone silent?

A former soldier of the 76th division, who is now serving in another region of Russia, wrote to me on August 24: “Why are the Airborne Forces command and politicians hiding what is happening now in the Lugansk region, Donetsk, etc. in Ukraine? Why are paratroopers sent on the 15th-16th and later already returning to their unit in zinc coffins? In particular, LEONID KICHATKIN from the 234th regiment. I don’t know the rest, but they exist!”

He asked me to come to the funeral. On the morning of August 25 in Vybuty, we could make sure that Leonid Yuryevich Kichatkin died on August 19.

One can only guess in what war he died. They don't talk about it.

Retired military men who are in great shock from what is happening (“We were set up! We were set up again!” - they say, swearing in the last words, without separating themselves from currently serving officers and contract soldiers) and, even without knowing each other, describe the same pattern of what is happening.

This is their version, but there is no other. The division formally terminates, by agreement of the parties, a contract with a person (or invites someone who has already served) and a new contract is immediately concluded by a third party. This could be some kind of intermediary office, or even some representatives of the Donetsk and Lugansk “people’s republics”. People become de jure volunteers. In this war, they are not military personnel of the Russian Federation, but private individuals who agreed to such a contract. Free people. Do they have the right?

Apparently, all negotiations are de facto conducted by the military command itself. It is possible that military registration and enlistment offices are involved in this chain.

Equipment and weapons are issued to people from their native unit. And the airborne combat vehicles - the same BMD-2, over the ownership of which disputes flared up, obviously previously written off as "reserve", but suitable for use, are going to this "unknown war". No one will drive the BMD-4 there - the latest technology, available only in Russia, is too easily identified.

However, these are trifles against the backdrop of everything that is happening. Against the backdrop of the death of thousands of people, these are, in particular, the very details in which the devil is hidden, but he does not live in details - he devours the lives of others.

In legal language, such formations are called illegal armed groups. In any country. Such combat units are not created for any legitimate purposes.

Only the state can initiate the creation of such formations in modern Russia. Only the state can offer people such contracts. The budget of the Russian state, which finances the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, pays for all this. That is, every taxpayer in Russia. People are dying in this war due to the money taken from each of us.

But it is impossible to take blood from everyone to bring these people back to life.

In 2000, for the whole country there was one clear explanation for why the soldiers of the 6th company, loyal to the highest ranks of the Russian Army, died: for the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation.

Now, in the summer of 2014, citizens of the Russian Federation are participating in hostilities on the territory of Ukraine, and on this front they are opposed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including the same paratroopers who, fulfilling the requirements of the Oath, defend the territorial integrity of Ukraine.

In 2000, during the Second Chechen War, no one, no serviceman of the Russian Army, could have imagined what front they might find themselves on in August 2014.

How many people with Ukrainian roots are there among Russian military personnel?

How many of the Ukrainian military personnel are people with Russian roots?

Now it has come to us - a real fratricidal war.

In 2000, the Pskov paratroopers were buried openly, with honors, by the whole of Russia - their graves are located in 30 regions.

It is impossible to say for sure, but it is already clear that even now funerals are taking place not only in Pskov.

Obviously, they take place the same way as in Pskov - in fact, secretly.

How many died is unknown. The command denies everything. This is undignified. Families are silent, and short, desperate phrases on social networks are immediately destroyed. It's scary.

Who needs this silence? Who can it save? Whose lie to hide?

For what and in the name of what did these people die on foreign soil, surrendering themselves into the hands of the state?

The Russian state does not want to answer these questions.

All the circumstances of the death of the 6th company are still not known. And under this government, which dates back to 1999-2000, they will hardly be known.

Just a few months ago, against the backdrop of the euphoria of the “bloodless return of Crimea,” everyone who retained a reasonable understanding of what was happening before our eyes, the nightmare that was just beginning then, said and shouted the main thing: “Stop. It's not too late. While everyone is alive ."

They didn't hear. They didn’t want to hear and didn’t hear.

And then, at the beginning of March 2014, everyone was still alive. Leonid Yurievich Kichatkin and Alexander Sergeevich Osipov, among others.

Who killed these people?

Society, struck by the plague of great-power joy, supported this war, agreed to it, and gave the lives of these young guys to the heat of war.

Russian society has gone through a terrible path following the Russian state in 14 years, from 2000 to 2014.

And it doesn't stop yet. Moreover, it accelerates.

In 2000, it was still possible to openly bury dead soldiers.

In 2014, this is no longer possible.

This is how the wars waged by the Russian state have changed.

In essence, this is all the same war - against the people.

Because only the people pay with their lives in this war.

There have long been many more dead soldiers than living ones.

But the dead cannot do anything.

Only the living can save the living.

Therefore, everyone has the opportunity, no, moreover, there is a duty to ask himself personally who he needs - dead or alive.

The future of Russia today depends on the answer to this question.