Results of forensic medical and DNA tests have been received during the investigation of a criminal case into disappearance of Andrey Stenin, a special photojournalist of Russia Today international news agency.
Investigators have figured out the circumstances of the journalist’s death. On 5 August Stenin was on a working trip in the town of Snezhnoye, Ukraine. In the evening of 6 August, in a Renault-Logan he was going in a convoy of refugees on the road Snezhnoye – Dmitrovka. The convoy was guarded by 6 citizen soldiers. When they were to northwest of Dmitrovka, the Ukrainian army, presumably 79th airmobile brigade, started shelling the convoy from IFV-2 and a tank. They fired fougasses and Kalashnikov tank machine guns. The shelling destroyed over 10 vehicles carrying civilians. Several people managed to flee and take cover in bushes along the road. The next day high-rank officers of the Ukrainian army arrived at the site. They not only examined the vehicles and dead bodies, but according to eye-witnesses took things from the destroyed convoy to their vehicles and searched the bodies. After they had left, the scene was shelled from Grad multiple-launch rocket systems.
Only on 27 August citizen soldiers had a chance to give Russian investigations a package containing fragments of burned remains of 5 people found in the Renault-Logan shelled on the road Snezhnoye – Dmitrovka. The remains were sent to Russian experts, who concluded that some of them were Andrey Stenin’s remains.
During the probe the investigators are going to find all the circumstances of Stenin’s death and identify individuals responsible for it and subject to prosecution.
Head of Media Relations V.I. Markin
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