Two teenagers were killed in Berdyansk, who were haunted by the occupation "authorities" for several months

In Ukraine, they are considered heroes of resistance, the pro -Russian “administration” calls “terrorists”. The circumstances of the death of adolescents are unknown

On June 24, 16-year-old local residents Tigran Ogannisyan and Nikita Khanganov died in the occupied Berdyansk. A few months before this, the “authorities” of the annexed Russian Federation of the Zaporizhzhya region were persecuted by adolescents, considering them “pro -Ukrainian terrorists”. In Ukraine, adolescents are considered partisans who were tortured by pro -Russian security forces for their views. Before his death, one of them recorded a video that ends with the slogan “Glory to Ukraine”. The circumstances of the death of adolescents are unknown, and their bodies are not returned to their relatives. The case of the Berdyansk partisans told the BBC-publications about this were issued by the Russian and Ukrainian corporation services. Medusa retold this material.

Tigran Ogannisyan and Nikita Hanganov are peers. Both were born in 2006: Tigran in August, Nikita - June 25. Until his seventeenth birthday, Khanganov did not live one day. Teenagers studied in the same class in the Berdyansk comprehensive school No. 7 and were friends.

Relatives and teachers said that Tigran was fond of history and wanted to become a military man, probably, like his uncle Yuri Petrenko, who has served in the Armed Forces since 2015. “Ukrainian Pravda” writes that Tigran “equally equal” to Petrenko. Nikita was engaged in several circles of the local Club of Children's and Youth Creativity "Star", including with a friend visited a military-patriotic circle. “They are not problematic children, quite calm, hardworking,” a former teacher of teenagers said “BBC”.

Nikita lived in Berdyansk with his parents, and Tigran with his mother, stepfather, two of their children and grandmother. Soon after a full -scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Oganesyan family left for Germany, since Tigran sisters needed treatment. Previously, they regularly went to Kiev, but after the occupation of Berdyansk it became impossible. Relatives persuaded Tigran to leave with them, but he decided to stay in Berdyansk with his grandmother.

The mother of teenager Oksana Staroverova told Ukrainian journalist Yanina Sokolova that in the early days of the war at that time, 15-year-old Tigran went to the military enlistment office, but he was not taken to the front. According to relatives and teachers, neither Tigran nor Nikita hid their sympathy for Ukraine. “They [were with Nikita] for Ukraine. They broke the Russian posters, in every way defended their position, which was inconvenient, ”their former teacher said

Teenagers were persecuted by the occupation "authorities", accusing the diversion on the railway. Tigran talked about torture

On the night of September 30, 2022, the pro -Russian security forces came to the House of Ogannisyan with a search, Anastasia Panteleeva said from the human rights organization Medium Human Rights Initiation, which is engaged in the case of adolescents. What caused the visit of the security forces is unclear. The teenager’s neighbor told Ukrainian Pravda that “40 people” came in total, including military, Kadyrovites and FSB officers in civilian clothes.

According to Panteleeva, the search took place all night, according to its results, all equipment and even products were taken out of the house. During the search, the security forces hit Tigran's grandmother. When the teenager stood up for her, he also received a blow. Then they put a bag on his head and took him in an unknown direction, says the human rights activist.

According to BBC, Tigran was kept in the building of the police department for several days on Greek Street in the center of Berdyansk. In the same cell, there were adult civil hostages with him - civilian Ukrainians, whom the Russian military captured during the war and kept in prison without charging and court.

Grandma Ogannisyan was not allowed to see the grandson. Only on the third day, when his temperature rose, she was allowed to bring him a program. On October 5, Tigran was released, obliging to celebrate daily in the prosecutor's office. After the release, the teenager told the family that during the imprisonment he was tortured, taken out to the field and imitated the execution, asking: “So you decided to be a partisan?”

On September 30, the Russian military also came to Nikita Khanganov, but did not find anyone at home. They remembered him shortly after the liberation of his friend. The teenager and his father were taken to the police, interrogated and released, also obliged to be celebrated in the prosecutor's office.

The schoolchildren at home regularly took searches, although they were not charged for several months. Relatives of adolescents suspect that they periodically followed Nikita and Tigran.

In December, according to Ogannisyan’s mother, friends were told to take a recognition on the diversion on the railway on the camera, promising that they would be released then. On December 16, the Russian State Agency of RIA Novosti published a two -minute video with the participation of two young people in black clothes and with blurry people who, who were claimed, were detained in the case of sabotage. Relatives and acquaintances learned in the heroes of the video Ogannisyan and Khanganov.

“Attackers damaged the electrical equipment of the coordination system of railway transport and communication lines. They also put a pillar on the railway to organize the composition of the composition from the rails, ”the agency explained the essence of the sabotage“ Representative of one of the law enforcement agencies ”. At the same time, the RIA Novosti note does not report when the alleged crime occurred and that the detainees are minors.

After recording the video, adolescents were not charged. They continued to be celebrated in the prosecutor's office, they were interrogated several times, writes BBC. In January 2023, the Tigran family came from Germany to pick it up. They passed filtration in a self-proclaimed DPR, crossed the border in Rostov-on-Don, but in Taganrog they were stopped by the traffic police officers, Ogannisyan's mother said .

As a result, the whole family was returned to Berdyansk. The stepfather, mother and Tigran himself were “closed in the cells” of the local military registration and enlistment office for a day, and then lowered their own recognizance. Mother and stepfather Ogannisyan went to local investigators for several days, demanding to cancel the ban on leaving. In the end, everyone was allowed to leave except Tigran.

In May Ogannisyan and Khanganov, they officially charged with “sabotage” ( Article 281 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation . The indictment says that adolescents, “being ardent opponents of the policy of the Russian Federation”, entered into the sake of assisting the Armed Forces and damaged the railway tracks to cut off the provision for the Russian military. According to the “saboteurs”, they caused the damage to the damage to 27 thousand rubles.

Berdyansk’s occupation authorities appointed lawyers to teenagers, one of whom, according to the Ogannisyan family, urged young people to cooperate with the investigation and plead guilty. Independent defenders, relatives of schoolchildren at that time could not be found.

Ukrainian human rights activists attracted attention to the case in the West. In particular, the US Department of State and the European Parliament spoke in defense of adolescents.

On the day of the death of adolescents in Berdyansk, a shootout occurred. The occupation "authorities" announced the "elimination of two pro -Ukrainian terrorists"

On June 24, a few hours before the death of adolescents, the investigator arrived at Ogannisyan. They talked in private for a long time, which is unknown. In the evening of the same day, Tigran and Nikita went for a walk, telling the relatives that they want to find a place to celebrate Khanganov’s birthday.

At about seven in the evening, reports of shooting in the area of ​​Lieutenant Schmidt and Seaport Park began to appear in the public of Berdyansk. An hour later, the representative of the occupying “authorities” Vladimir Rogov, who is called the “member of the main council of the administration” of the annexed part of the Zaporizhzhya region, announced the shooting.

An hour later, Rogov said that two pro -Ukrainian terrorist were "eliminated in the city." According to his version, at about seven in the evening, “two militants opened fire from machine guns” in the area of ​​the city embankment. “As a result of coordinated and operational actions of law enforcement agencies, terrorists were blocked and destroyed,” the pro-Russian official reported in the telegram channel. It also clarified that one of the killed was "previously detained for anti -Russian activities Tigran Oganesyan ( as Rogov wrote - approx." Medusa " )."

The Ukrainian media, the BBC writes, immediately suggested that Nikita Hanganov could be the second killed. “Their notes on this subject differed: some wrote that Tigran and Nikita were killed by a policeman and civilian before his death, others will repeat this version later by the Commissioner for Human Rights [Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine] Dmitry Lubinets, that teenagers killed a Russian military and police officer,” the publication notes.

That evening, Ukrainian sources distributed a video, which is claimed, Tigran recorded a few minutes before his death. In a video similar to a “circle” in the Telegram messenger, a teenager with a machine gun in his hands sits on the floor in some, apparently, abandoned room. On the fingers of Ogannisyan, traces of blood are visible.

“Two are for sure,” answers the Tigran in the video of the person’s question behind the scenes. What he was asked about is impossible to make out. “Everything is death, boys. Farewell! Glory to Ukraine! " - then he adds, squeezing a fist in a tactical glove.

Where and when the recording was made is unknown. If we are talking about video message, then to whom it was sent and who published them is also unknown. The inhabitants of Berdyansk told BBC and Ukrainian Pravda that the video could be recorded in an abandoned house of life next to the park of Lieutenant Schmidt.

Users of Ukrainian social networks decided that Ogannisyan and Hanganov were killed by Russian security forces for the pro-Ukrainian position , notes the BBC. In the Ukrainian press, the dead were called partisans . In social networks they called for awarded Tigran and Nikita the title of heroes posthumously. Uncle Ogannisyan asked about this. The head of the Ukrainian administration of Berdyansk Victoria Galitsin called the teenagers heroes and promised that after the de -enable of the city to the school where adolescents studied, their names would appropriate.

After the death of adolescents, messages (possibly edited) Tigran with Nazi statements appeared on social networks.

Soon after the death of adolescents, several more messages appeared on the Internet, presumably recorded by Tigran before death. “Hello brother. We killed several Russian rusaks, ”says a teenager in one of them, recorded in the same abandoned room.

In another, voice message, he says: “In kind, I have a machine gun here, I was bleeding, I was wounded. Well, how. In general, I will die now and my Kent will also die ( hereinafter, writes “BBC”, follows the Nazi greeting-approx. “Medus” ). Glory to the white race. You throw these messages to my parents, say that I love them. ”

Relatives and defenders say that they have never heard that adolescents adhere to right -handed views. Moreover, this is surprising because Tigran is half the Armenian. The lawyer of the Ogannisyan family believes that the Nazi greeting and the words about the “white race” differ in sound from the rest of the message, and the original records need to be studied for possible installation.

After the death of adolescents, after the death of Ogannisyan and Khanganov, the leader of the Ukrainian right -icing movement “The Former” Evgeny Karas said . According to him, the dead sympathized with the ultra -right organization "Tradition and Order" and collaborated with its movement. Karas also published photos of Nikita and Tigran with knives in his hands.

In addition, the BBC found on Instagram, presumably, the old profile of Nikita Khanganov. The profile avatar is decorated in the blue-yellow colors of the Ukrainian flag and in the red-blacks used by the Ukrainian rebel army. The picture also depicts the emblem of the Azov regiment , similar to drawing the Volfsangel rune, which was used by German Nazis. The profile description says: "Nationalist, sexist, racist, homophobic and just Nikita."

The publication did not find other evidence that adolescents could be connected with ultra -right.

The circumstances of the death of adolescents are not unknown. Relatives still do not give their bodies

There is still no reliable information about what exactly happened on June 24 in Berdyansk, the BBC notes notes. Communication with the families of the dead is difficult. According to journalists, after the shooting, the grandmother of Tigran and the parents of Nikita kept on the police for a day. Friends and acquaintances of the dead refuse to refuse to comment so as not to harm those who remained in the occupied territory. The Ukrainian side has no access to Berdyansk captured by the Russian Federation, and the Russian side, in turn, voiced at least two versions about what happened.

29 июня Следственный комитет РФ по аннексированной части Запорожской области сообщил , что в отношении 16-летних Никита Ханганова и Тиграна Оганисяна ( так убитого назвали в пресс-релизе — прим. «Медузы» ) возбудили еще одно дело — об убийстве из хулиганских побуждений, хищении оружия и посягательства на жизнь сотрудника правоохранительного органа (пункты «ж», «и» Part 2 of Article 105, paragraph “B” of paragraph 4 of Article 226 and Article 317 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

According to investigators, on June 24, in the center of Berdyansk, adolescents attacked a policeman with a “stabbing object” and took away from him a “service equipment”. Then they hid on the third floor of one of the abandoned houses, injuring three people along the way and killing another . “The minors refused to surrender and lay out the weapon, as a result of which they were eliminated,” the report said.

On July 2, the Arab version of the Russian propaganda television channel RT released a plot in which she stated that Tigran allegedly killed Nikita and shot himself. According to the channel, Tigran was recruited by the Ukrainian special services to commit terrorist attacks through the web game. At the same time, the BBC notes that the Internet in the city is unstable, sometimes it is not at all.

The plot of RT shows another message, presumably recorded by Tigran in an abandoned building. In it, he demonstrates the machine gun and talks about the intention to shoot himself. “Tigran wounded a law enforcement officer and killed a peaceful resident. Then he shot his partner and himself, ”says the author of the report.

In turn, Ukrainian sources claim that the murder of adolescents organized the FSB. This version, in particular, was nominated by the "Berdyansk partisan army." “Everything is simple. Russian monsters put the guys before the choice: either death on the basement, or take the weapon and go shoot. Consciously knowing the further course of the development of events, ”the organization said in the telegram channel.

The Ukrainian “Media Initiative on Human Rights”said that Ogannisyan and Khanganov were killed by snipers. Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets said that what happened was “the extrajudicial execution of two Ukrainian teenagers”. At the same time, he noted that there are different versions of the murder: from the death of adolescents during a shootout with the Russian security forces, to the staging that the Russians arranged to hide the death of adolescents in the investigative insulator.

The SBU of the Zaporizhzhya region informed Ukrainian Pravda that criminal proceedings were instituted upon the murder of two teenagers under an article on violation of the laws and customs of war.

The Tigran family lawyer believes that the occupation authorities are trying to hide with all his might, which really happened on June 24 in Berdyansk. “They do not want the whole world to be convinced: they did not even try to detain the guys while maintaining their lives. If it were a police operation, we would see wounds of arms and legs. But by the nature of the available defeats, one can see that all the shots were incompatible with life - it will be obvious when everyone sees the bodies, ”Yakovlev said.

At the same time, relatives still have not received the body of the dead. It was reported that the funeral of adolescents had to pass on June 29. However, the morgue refused to give the bodies of the dead to his relatives, the BBC family told the Tigran family. According to her, the morgue building is placed under enhanced military protection. On June 30, human rights activists said that pro -Russian investigators sent teenagers to Melitopol for examination.