My morning started with another request for help:

Greetings, Elena. My name is Irina. I would like to ask for your help if it is possible. I really need to know the current situation in Donetsk, Ukraine. The thing is that a platoon from town of Kyakhta, Naushki region [Republic of Buryatia, Russia] is sent there as an enforcement. My brother, the only breadwinner in our family, is one of them. The other brother is disabled. Time is drawing on. Any information is precious. How bad is it?.. I cannot let him go for certain death. Thanks in advance, I’ll appreciate if you can help me.

Indeed, there is a military camp named Kyakhta with a military unit No. 69647 – the 37th separate motorized rifle brigade. The military unit lost a lot of its soldiers after the last ‘trainings’. All of them were noticed in battles near Ilovaisk and Debaltseve. One of the participants of the documentary below says: “The relatives think the guys still serve, while they are in the refrigerators already, being given away from time to time”.

They were the guys who stood as a wall when an agreement was reached about the Ukrainian special forces with the Russian wounded and captured soldiers recovery. They were the ones who, among the others, were suddenly shot down in the field by Russian troops.

A lot of people still wait for their sons from the service, just like in any other region of Russia. The cases when parents struggle to seek the truth no matter what are seldom. But the truth comes out anyway despite the death of guys is carefully concealed. Here is a story how one of the fathers tries to find out the real circumstances of his son’s death, denying the official version.

Each day I get dozens of letters with requests to find relatives or to help to save them… And their number grows. I get even more letters from mothers who ask to clarify the circumstances of their sons death. Here is a short video made of my recordings. The questioned witnesses from Ukraine may shed some light on events there Russian servicemen die.

Original article by Elena Vasilieva translated by Oleksandr Klymenko