"They could not get out of the burning tank." The body of the mobilized year has been left under the Ugleder

In February, a year, as the body of a 46-year-old mobilized from the Buryat village of Kyren Dmitry Zheyeev, remains in a burned tank near Ugledar. By the summer of 2023, the city was completely destroyed, now it is under the control of Ukraine, but still under the non-stop shelling of the Russian and Ukrainian army.

According to his relatives, his colleagues could not pull out the body of Dmitry Zheleeeva from a burning tank with a hasty retreat. Friends of the deceased say: "The family was lucky" that the colleagues at least testified death.

"A year has passed"

Dmitry Zheyeev went to the war against Ukraine in the early days of mobilization.

“On September 22, 2022, he received a summons and immediately got into his zone from the 5th Panzer Division Brigade of Ulan-Ude,” says his sister Anna . -He was a senior driver-driver.

Dmitry’s relatives do not say whether he himself wanted to go to war or not, but they note that "since May he was sitting without work."

- In April 2010, Dima got a job in the Tunkinsky National Park, or rather, was an inspector in Turansky forestry. He plowed there for 12 years. In May, he suddenly quit, seemingly at his desire, but there was no. Before that, he had a drunken accident, even the court, maybe this influenced [the dismissal], says the acquaintance of the deceased Sergey .

According to the release of the court, in February 2022 he was found guilty of a drunken accident (Article 264.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The court noted that Dmitry "is characterized positively at the place of residence and the police, registered with the narcologist and psychiatrist, idle, has a young child"). As a result, the presence of a child softened the verdict and was prescribed for compulsory work. The judge noted that he did not appoint a fine due to the "difficult financial situation" of the defendant. But he deprived Zhoyeev's right to drive vehicles for 2 years.

How the deprived of the rights of Jehoeev became the mechanic-driver of the tank, none of the interlocutors could explain.

The administrators of the VKontakte account, advertising the service in the 5th Panzer Division Brigade of Ulan-Ude, also did not answer the question, and on the phone indicated in the announcement of the phone said "you were the wrong way."

Former chief Dmitry Svetlana Sinkevich only said that "colleagues knew Dmitry as a responsible, competent specialist who was ready at any moment to help their comrades." Colleagues deny the forced dismissal of Zhoyeev.

- In May 2022, he was dismissed of his own free will. His quality work has been repeatedly noted. Its assets have honorary diplomas of the Tunkinsky National Park, the trade union committee, the Office of Rosprirodnadzor in the Republic of Buryatia, ”Sinkevich said.

His relatives about a drunken accident and deprivation of rights also refused to speak.

- Dima was born on June 19, 1977 in the village of Turan. This is the Tunkinsky district. Father's name was Mels Lopsovich, mother-Buda-Handa Khorlaevna. Now both are no longer alive, unfortunately, says his neighbor Anna s . - Dmitry was the third child of 6 children in the family.

He graduated from the Turan eight -year school, and then went into the army.

“Since 1994, he served in Asino in the Tomsk region, and then hit the first Chechen campaign,” his friends say. -In 1997, after the army, he entered the Tunkinskoye SPTU-32 to the driver's courses and the tractor driver of the driver of a wide profile. After his studies, he went to serve patrol, already in the village of Kyren. For about a year he served and went to work in the district culture house by DJ.

His friend Sergei adds that Dmitry managed to serve for three years under military contract in the tank forces in Transbaikalia.

- He served in Chita tanker, therefore, apparently, they were credited with a mechwater. On February 6, 2023, they had a kneading near Ugled. They tried to storm. He could not get out. I don’t know how much they tried to pull it out there. A year has passed - and we will not find out, I think, ”says Sergey. “But at least they said that he died so as not to run around the courts.”

Former colleague of Jehoeeva said that he was familiar with the entire crew of a burned tank - the commander and gunner burned and survived, and Dmitry was stuck in a burning tank.

- In that crew there were three of my friends. I knew the crew of the crew of Sergei since childhood, and Alexei [gunner] and Dmitry [Mehvod] are my neighbors, ”says Roman Taryashinov . - All the guys are like a selection - not a whiner. I know that Sergey was very burned. But the worst thing is that Dmitry could not get out of the already burning tank. I worked as a development deputy director at the national park, and Dmitry was an inspector. Often met, discussed working moments. He was laconic, there are such people of business. But always friendly. He loved his land very much. I did not learn about the tragedy immediately, since I have not been working in the national park since 2020. But when he found out, he could not believe for a long time. Why is it? But God has his own plans for everyone.

According to Friends of Jehoeev, Dmitry had an illegitimate child, but "they did not communicate." His sisters do not mention the child, but report that "Dmitry had brothers, sisters, nephews."

"Dmitry Malsovich was a cheerful, kind, responsive, reliable person, brother, uncle, a friend for his loved ones, relatives, colleagues, friends, classmates.
He was in Brook "Battle Brotherhood", awarded many medals. He took an active part in the life of the village, helped to build playgrounds, an alley of glory and a square with his brothers. He showed respect for people, was easy to climb, ”wrote his sister Anna for an obituary on the National Park website.

The details of their contacts with officials for payments for the deceased, as well as the transportation of the body of Dmitry to his native village a year after his death, prefer not to speak. Like its attitude to war - how it has changed and.

"Shot like in a dash"

The battles for Ugledar in the Donetsk region were waged between the army of Ukraine and the army of the Russian Federation during the battle for the Donbass in 2022–2023. By the summer of 2023, the city was destroyed. There is no electricity and water supply to today in Ugro, the infrastructure does not work. From the pre -war population of 15 thousand people, by February 2023, less than 500 people remained in Ugled, and by July 2023 - less than 100. The city remains under the control of Ukraine and is under erratic shelling.

In early February 2023, pro -Russian sources recognized the severe losses of the Russian army if an attempt to advance under the Ugled in the Donetsk region. Dozens of lost tanks and armored personnel carriers are reported, the number of killed and wounded military, apparently, can be calculated by dozens or even hundreds. “They shot like in a dash,” - Igor Strelkov, former commander of the troops of pro -Russian separatists in Donetsk, wrote about the dead commander of the troops.

A failed attack, the video of which was published after Ukrainian sources, a number of Russian wire-tanks, took place on February 6 and ended in the defeat of the Russian unit. More than 30 pieces of equipment are lost , including about 15 tanks, follows from common videos.

A long search for the dead military is a frequent phenomenon. The relatives of the 20-year-old resident of the Usolye-Siberian Irkutsk region Alexei Kislichenko were looking for him for more than a year and a half. In the spring of 2022, Alexei was drafted into the army, for military service. He hit the tank troops and served in the Chelyabinsk region. Under the circumstances unknown to his family, Alexei signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense, after which he was sent to the war to Ukraine. A few weeks later, he stopped communicating and was listed as missing for more than a year and a half. It was possible to bury him recently. Alexei lied to his relatives that he was “sitting in the rear and taking out the broken Russian tanks from the battlefield, when everything is already ending” so as not to worry his parents.

Russia invaded Ukraine early on the morning of February 24, 2022. According to the UN and international humanitarian organizations, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, Russian troops struck indistinct missile strikes on residential quarters, hospitals and other social infrastructure facilities of Ukraine. The attack on Ukraine, the shelling of Ukrainian cities and infrastructure objects provoked a humanitarian, migration and energy crisis. On March 2, a week after the start of the invasion, the UN General Assembly adopted the Aggression against Ukraine resolution with a demand to Russia to immediately withdraw troops from the territory of Ukraine. The 141 countries voted, against - 5, 35 countries abstained.

The Russian side hides its losses in this war. According to estimates, which are conducted by open sources BBC and Mediazon, at least 40,599 Russian troops were killed by December 29, 2023. The authors of the study acknowledge that the real number of dead are much higher.
Ukraine also does not publish data on the loss of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In April 2023, the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexei Reznikov said in an interview with the Spanish newspaper La Razon that the total losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "less than the number of those who died from an earthquake in Turkey" (according to March 19, 2023, the number of people who died from an earthquake in Turkey approached 48 thousand people).

The NEW York Times , referring to unnamed sources in the US administration, writes in mid -August 2023, that Russian Armed Forces lost up to 120,000 dead and from 170,000 to 180,000 wounded, APU losses are estimated at about 70,000 killed and from 100,000 to 120,000 wounded.