A member of the Presidential Council under the President informed reporters about the delivery of hundreds of wounded military to St. Petersburg

A member of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights and the Chairman of the "Soldiers' Mothers of St. Petersburg" Elle Polyakova became known about the delivery of a large number of wounded military personnel to St. Petersburg. She reported this in a telephone conversation for the Rain TV channel.

"A board came with a very large number of wounded to the Military Medical Academy," she said. We are talking about the S.M. Military Medical Academy Kirov in St. Petersburg. According to her, there were about a hundred wounded troops aboard. Where and under what circumstances they were injured, she is now unknown. She recruits this information.

In an interview with the Rain TV channel, after 21:00 in Moscow, Ella Polyakova also stated that the hospital was full of the wounded in Rostov-on-Don.

Earlier today it became known that Polyakova and another member of the Council, Sergei Krivenko, sent a request from the Investigative Committee with a request to investigate the circumstances of the death of contractors of the 18th motorized rifle brigade (military unit 27777), natives of Dagestan. According to the official version, they died at the training ground in the Rostov region on August 9 and 11.

At the same time, earlier on August 26, the chairman of the Saratov "Union of Soldiers' Mothers" Lidia Sviridova stated with reference to the data of human rights activist Lyudmila Bogatenkova that there are a lot of "killed Russian military personnel" in Ukraine, including "top -level officers."

Some of the dead, presumably, are already buried in Russia in Ukraine. According to the media, on August 25 in the village of Busty, the Pskov region, the bodies of the military personnel of the 76th Pskov division of the Airborne Forces were planted.

Their funerals were closed, only close relatives were invited to the farewell ceremony. The journalists who tried to find the graves of the military attacked unknown people, they damaged the car of the media employees, and some selected cameras.

According to the Internet publication of Slon.ru , information about participation in the hostilities in Ukraine of Russian military began to arrive from mid-August from different regions of Russia, where their funerals took place. In particular, the deaths of paratroopers from Ulan-Ude, the Republic of Dagestan, as well as the capture of the fighters of the 98th Svir Division of the Airborne Forces based in Kostroma, were reported. On the morning of August 26, the Ukrainian SBU announced the captivity of another 10 Russian paratroopers. The Ministry of Defense has denied the participation of the RF Armed Forces in the conflict in eastern Ukraine.