In Ukraine, military personnel from Chuvashia came under fire from HIMARS missiles. Telegram channel “Angry Chuvashia” and “Idel. Realities» reports dozens of deaths.
It is specified that this happened on Sunday, October 29. A car convoy containing soldiers of the 1st battalion of the 1251st motorized rifle regiment, consisting of mobilized residents of the republic, came under fire. “Angry Chuvashia” reports about ten burned KamAZ and UAZ vehicles.
In the video footage published by the telegram channel, the skeletons of burnt trucks and minibuses are visible. The servicemen approaching them, pointing to the body parts blurred out and presumably left on the road, say that this is “meat.”
“Here was the most terrible thing that I have ever seen in my life… There was a KamAZ with people, a whole KamAZ with people, damn it!” says the author of one of the videos.
Yesterday, October 31, “Angry Chuvashia” also published a tentative list of 45 wounded, without specifying how it got to them. Later, the telegram channel, citing a “source from the front,” reported that 19 people were killed in the shelling.
Information about the attack is also confirmed by Idel’s interlocutors. Realii» — mobilized residents of Chuvashia. According to the publication, the shelling occurred in the Zaporozhye direction, and as a result, 47 people were killed.
The authorities of Chuvashia deny the death of their fellow countrymen. The head of the republic, Oleg Nikolaev, claims that information about the shelling is disseminated “mainly by Ukrainian telegram channels,” and “various situations are possible” at the front.
The Military Commissioner of Chuvashia Bakhtier Kholikov, commenting on the information about the attack, only recalled the criminal liability for “fakes” about the army, adding that “inaccurate mention of a rumor is considered the dissemination of false information.”