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The message of the death of 25 October 19 year-old contractor from Krasnodar Vadim Kostenko published in social networks of his friends and relatives. “Verify the information, its profile, the profiles of his friends and relatives, we found a lot of evidence that he had been acting military contract. Military service completed in June 2015 th, and immediately signed a contract “, – stated in the CIT on the results conducted by a team of investigation.
friends of the victims told the activists that to them came the officers of the military airfield of Primorsko-Akhtarsk (Krasnodar Region). At the airport based 960 th Attack Aviation Regiment of the 1st Guards Mixed Air Division 4th Army, Air Force and Air Defense. Russian Su-25 in Syria as of this regiment, say activists CIT.
«After completing military service in the in / h 20926 (834 th Air Force training center, Zernograd, Rostov region) Vadim signed contract with a / h 75387, 960th Attack Aviation Regiment “- the authors suggest investigation. He was not a pilot, but was engaged in servicing equipment at the airport, they specify.
According to the information. published relatives in social networks, Kostenko died October 24, 2015. October 23 edition of The Wall Street Journal published an article about Russia’s participation in the military conflict in Syria, where the first reports of casualties among Russian troops in Syria. WSJ received a comment from a source in the Russian Defense Ministry, which confirmed the death of one of the military (his name was not mentioned in the article), but said that the soldiers did not die because of the fighting, and as a result of careless handling of weapons.
«If you imagine that as a result of careless handling of ammunition there was a tragic accident and affected more than one soldier, then at that moment, Vadim could easily be wounded and died after the publication of the article WSJ», – put forward his version of events the authors of the investigation.
In favor of the version of the accident, according to them, they say messages Syrian activists of 23 October on the clouds of thick smoke from the Russian airbase Hmeymim in Latakia.
Activists CIT also reported that among relatives of the military discussed “rumors” about another nine died with Kostenko military.
The press service of the Defense Ministry failed to promptly comment on the death of the soldier.
One of the next of kin Kostenko confirmed RBC that on 14 September he was sent to Syria on October 25 the family reported the death of a contractor. According to the source of RBC, family in the military initially said that Kostenko hanged. Later part of the reported that the soldier was found dead, without specifying details of the incident, according to the interlocutor of RBC.
In the coming days, according to CIT, to be held in the village funeral Kostenko Greceanii Beam Kalinin district of Krasnodar region. The body of the deceased has not yet delivered a close, told RBC relative Kostenko and one of his former colleagues.
Group CIT – a team of activists engaged in the investigation on the basis of open data Social networks or OSINT-intelligence (Open Source INTelligence). Previously, the team became known for its publications blogger Ruslan Leviev of the death of the Russian military in the south-east of Ukraine. “Initially, we called an acronym WIU (WarInUkraine), but in view of a second front now it looks a little silly,” – explains the recent renaming the Leviev Group in his blog. According to him, the team is made up of activists well versed in social networks, and IT-specialists who are able to handle large amounts of data.
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