
The 19-year-old contractor Vadim Kostenko, who died in Syria on Saturday, the day before his death, October 23, called the fellow villager and said that he would return from the Middle East in a week. This was reported by "Rain" with reference to the journalist of Novye newspaper Evgeny Titov, who is located on the Kuban farm of the Greek beam, where the deceased was buried on Wednesday. At the same time, Kostenko assured that "everything is fine."
Earlier on Wednesday it became known that the parents of the deceased turned to the police demanding to conduct a second medical examination . They indicated that the injuries received by the deceased refute the official version of suicide. Kostenko’s nose, jaw, neck are broken, and knees are crushed with the back of the head and shine. Moreover, in the official conclusion, asphyxia is indicated as the cause of death.
Meanwhile, an investigator and forensic scientist arrived on the buckwheat on Wednesday, and military doctors refused to come.
The body of Kostenko was delivered from Rostov-on-Don on Tuesday.
The residents of the farm surveyed by the journalist of the "new" said they did not believe in the version of suicide. Meanwhile, the representatives of the military unit, where Kostenko served on the buckwheat, refused comments.
On Tuesday evening, the younger sister of Kostenko 14-year-old Ekaterina told Reuters that there was no damage on her brother's body. According to her, it is impossible to understand whether he was strangled or hanged.
Meanwhile, the main military prosecutor's office of Russia began an audit in connection with the death of Kostenko. It is alleged that its first results indicate that suicide became the cause of death "during the Essential time in connection with the soldier that had developed in adverse personal circumstances outside the unit." They noted that the cause of death was confirmed by a forensic research.
This version was nominated the day before to the Ministry of Defense.
The death of Kostenko’s death was reported on Tuesday. One of the relatives said that on September 14, the contractor was sent to Syria, and on October 25 the family was informed of his death . According to the interlocutor of the publication, initially the family at the military registration and enlistment office said that Kostenko hanged himself. Later from the unit they reported that the soldier was found dead, not specifying the details of the incident.
Parents of the deceased, Alexander and Svetlana Kostenko, said they did not believe the Ministry of Defense. Svetlana Kostenko said that on the day of his death, October 24, her son called her and "was fun, joyful and laughed." She clarified that every day she talked for half an hour with Vadim Kostenko on the phone. Alexander Kostenko, for his part, noticed that his son would never have committed suicide because of his relationship with a girl. In the same spirit, Grigory Donskoy spoke in an interview with another media and the colleague of the deceased.