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In Belovezhskaya Pushcha. Maxim Markhalyuk turned 11 on October 10, and nothing is known about his whereabouts.
On September 16, a 10-year-old boy disappeared in Belovezhskaya Pushcha; two weeks ago, a large-scale search and rescue operation took place in Novy Dvor, one of the largest in the country. More than two thousand volunteers came to the Belarusian forest to help find Maxim. Unfortunately, there are still no results.
Like a portal Tut. by, now a quiet and measured life continues in Maxim's native village. Quite recently the headquarters of the Red Cross and many volunteers of the Angel squad were located here.
The mother of the missing Maxim works at the school, she refuses to comment on the situation to journalists. The school said that they are trying to support the woman with all their might.
I really sympathize with the boy's mom, but I have no idea how to help in this situation. All this time, volunteers stayed with me. She fed, took at her place, - says a local resident Zoya. - All versions have already been discussed. Of course, you really want him to be found, and you believe that he just went to travel.
Now Maxim has been put on the international wanted list, and the Investigative Committee of Belarus has opened a criminal case on the fact of the boy's disappearance.
On this moment police officers are busy looking.
The search is ongoing. A criminal case on the fact of the disappearance of the child was initiated on September 26 in connection with the expiration of ten days from the date of the filing of the statement about the disappearance of the boy and the failure to establish his whereabouts in the course of the operational-search measures carried out, - reported the Sb portal. by the official representative of the Investigative Committee Yulia Goncharova.
According to the press service of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Grodno Regional Executive Committee, police officers from the Svislochsky, Slonimsky, Zelvensky, Mostovsky District Internal Affairs Directorates, servicemen of the internal troops and employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations take part in the search and rescue operation. Experts study the most difficult and wetlands.
Do you know how many versions there were? Whatever people said: they stole a child, fled abroad, drowned in a swamp, but these are all assumptions, but how it really happened is unknown. In the church, we pray that Maxim was found safe and sound, - says the local priest, Father Anatoly.
Despite the fact that Maxim has a Catholic family, in the Orthodox church of Novy Dvor people order services for the health of the child. This is how the cohesion of residents in a common trouble is manifested.
There is a village council in Novy Dvor, and the journalists managed to find someone there only after lunch. Vera Lisovskaya, head of the children's affairs department, commented on the situation:
There is no news. So I can't tell you anything. Maybe just about the family - simple hardworking people who work hard. An ordinary rural family. And Maxim is ordinary, mobile, like other children of his age.
The journalists drove up to the place from where all the operations began - a hut called the base. Here rescuers found Maxim's abandoned bike. At the moment, it is empty, now local residents do not let their children into the forest.
Yes, and we, adults, are a little scared to go into the thicket - now here behind every tree there is something incomprehensible, because there are many versions of the boy's disappearance. It is not clear what really happened, - says a local resident Vera.
It seems that everyone knows about Maxim's birthday in a small agricultural town. Locals say: he turned 11. A month has passed since they were looking for Maxim.
10-year-old Maxim Markhalyuk disappeared last Saturday. From the moment he left for the forest, it was already the eighth day. All week volunteers, rescuers, police officers and military officers combed Belovezhskaya Pushcha, near which there is an agro-town New Courtyard... The volunteers, the Emergencies Ministry and the police unanimously say: no old-timer remembers such a large-scale search. However, there is still no news yet.
Eight in the morning. Not far from the mechdvor of the local SPK there are tents for military and rescuers. There is smoke from the field kitchen. There are also two large helicopters and one drone from the Academy of Sciences, which was supposed to fly out yesterday in search of Maxim. Also, as reported in the ATC, at night the boy was to be searched with a thermal imager.
The results of these searches are still unknown. The headquarters meeting began at 10:00. By 11 o'clock the head of staff, deputy chief of the Internal Affairs Directorate Alexander Shastailo will announce the action plan and details of the operation that took place last night.
- Today it is planned to participate 40 people from the regional Ministry of Emergency Situations (Grodno), 34 from the Volkovysk Regional Emergency Service, 34 from the Svislochsky and 21 from the special forces, - Natalia Zhivolevskaya, press secretary of the Grodno Emergency Ministry, told Onliner.by. - I want to emphasize that they all take part in the search in their free time. And they volunteered to participate in the search of their own free will.
Another camp, already volunteers, was set up at the local school stadium. There are dozens of cars and hundreds of people here. In the center is the headquarters of the Angel and CentroSpas rescue teams.
There are much more people here than yesterday. By nine in the morning, more than a thousand people from all over the country had already arrived. And they keep coming. Many people take dogs with them.
- We came from Molodechno. There were three cars of five people each. We do not know each other at all, we just decided: "We need to go." And they signed off on VKontakte, - says Svetlana, who participates in the search for the first time. - We left even earlier than at four in the morning to be in time by eight. We are all mothers and fathers, we believe that if something happens to our children, God forbid, people will also come to our aid.
- We are also from Molodechno. We spent the night here and are now ready to search, - says Maxim, Valery, Olga, Igor and Sergey. The guys periodically help "Angel" in his search and are going to stay until tomorrow, if they don't find Maxim today.
- Most likely, he was frightened of wild animals and ran away and is now wandering somewhere in the forest, - young people are optimistic. - In any case, we believe in the best.
The guys from the Brest motorcycle club came by ATVs. They say that it is much easier to search this way: there are many fallen trees in the forest.
- I was released from work yesterday. Reacted with understanding - says strong Sergei. According to him, the forest passes are difficult: there are a lot of windbreaks.
- It's easier for a man, guys walk 30 kilometers, women - 15 kilometers. We walked in a chain, there are many windbreaks, there are a lot of blockages, while you examine everything, of course, the girls lagged behind - says Sergey.
- We hope that searches today will definitely bring results, - adds his friend Victor. - Today there are much more people, we think the search radius will expand.
Yura, Tanya, Oksana, Svetlana also took four hours to get to Novy Dvor from Minsk. They say they could not sit at home, knowing that they needed help.
- I have a brother of the same age at home, we also have a difference of 11 years, like this boy and his older brother. As I think that he could get lost, so already goosebumps, - explains Oksana.
- We just could not sit at home, knowing that Maxim was alone in the forest, - the guys say. - A lot of people were traveling. Those who could not go, they sent packages. We carried medicines, food, stationery. A lot of people transferred money. Trouble leaves no one indifferent.
- On weekdays we could not escape, we worked, - the guys from Baranovichi say. - And at night only specially trained people went to the forest, after all, volunteers were not allowed. So as soon as it became clear that we needed help on the weekend, we immediately arrived.
Local residents, who have been looking for Maxim for a week, cannot talk about what happened without tears.
- Oh, if only he could be found today, I can't speak, I'm sorry, - a tear-stained woman in a red jacket turns away.
- We are all worried about him. We didn't even see him that day, only one of us saw, - Fifth-graders are vying with each other at school.
At headquarters, Angel coordinators are discussing how to assign people. It does not do without raised tones. Many people worry and try to give each other good advice.
Separately, field kitchen volunteers sort food, prepare tea to feed the children.
On the other side, the Red Cross has pitched its tents. There is also water, food and all the information on the missing Maxim.
Internal Affairs Directorate: "If we do not find the boy in 10 days, we will initiate a criminal case"
After 12:00, we still managed to catch the chief of the search headquarters Maksim Markhalyuk - the deputy head of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Grodno Regional Executive Committee Alexander Shastailo. He told the details of yesterday's search operation.
- As for the reconnaissance with thermal imagers, experts identified several heat points yesterday night. This morning, these points were checked by forces including the republican special-purpose unit of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. They did not give any information about the missing person, - said Alexander Shastailo.
- At the moment, in the territory where, according to preliminary data, the missing person may be, searches are carried out by the forces of law enforcement agencies, employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, military, regional authorities, organizations. A sufficient number of volunteers have also arrived today.
At the moment, over two thousand people are taking part in the search for the boy. We divided the volunteers into organized groups in order to use people's opportunities more effectively. Foresters, employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, ROVD have been added to these groups, and now search and rescue activities are actively underway.
- Are there any clues and traces?
- We are already returning to those places that were surveyed earlier, now the territory is quite well-trodden, there are many traces, - noted the chief of staff. - If the traces are of interest, the information goes to headquarters. A mobile group leaves for this place and thoroughly examines the territory where traces were found, and the information is transmitted to the headquarters. At the moment, all the information received has been verified - there is no result. We are working on various versions, but the main working version is the version that the boy got lost in the forest.
- Are there any other options being considered besides the forest?
- The marshland is considered. Literally today, information was received about the wetland area where the abandoned buildings are located. A mobile group left there, we dropped it off from a helicopter, and specialists checked this area.
- Is there any criminal version being worked out? Maybe the boy was stolen, or did he run away?
- These versions are being worked out by law enforcement officers. In accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Belarus, 10 days after filing an application with the internal affairs bodies, all information is transferred to the Investigative Committee. And already he initiates a criminal case.
- Are there any search standards? After how many days does the search stop?
- As such, there is no established standard. The search will continue regardless of the result that is obtained and will be obtained in the future. Maybe not such forces will be involved, but operational-search measures will be carried out. The statute of limitations for such cases is significant.
Ministry of Emergency Situations and volunteers: combing the territory within a radius where a person could reach, even looking at 100 kilometers
In the afternoon, the Emergencies Ministry has a task for aviation - to work out points. The bottom line is simple: the drone flies, and the thermal imager captures "warm objects". After some time, the drone returns to its place.
And if he fixes the point again, then a special mobile group is already sent there, which searches the area, including hard-to-reach areas such as islands in swamps, and so on.
- This work is going on now, - stressed in the Ministry of Emergencies. - We choose the radius based on how many people can pass during this time. Yes, we also take 100 kilometers for insurance.
The second task is the coordination of volunteers. More than once or twice in the groups of the search and rescue squad they talked about the fact that there are a lot of people, but there are not enough coordinators.
Today, at about 10 am, the volunteers were divided into small groups of 30-40 people. Together with them, they sent coordinators - foresters, employees of the Ministry of Emergencies. By the way, the latter employs about 140 people, these are rescuers not only from Grodno, but also from Brest regions. The guys lined up in a chain and went to comb the forest.
- Pay attention to any caches, hiding places, burrows, - the curators explain to the volunteers. - If you are lagging behind or are faced with a hard-to-reach place, tell the curator, and he stops the whole chain. Clear?
- The girl tried to literally crawl into the house and ask questions to parents, - said Alla Goncharevich, director of Novodvorsk secondary school. - Now the parents have decided not to talk to the press.
Completed. Law enforcers: "Misinformation was spread more than once"
- At about 3 pm, the volunteers came across some things. They were handed over to Maxim's parents, but the things were not his, - told Onliner.by representatives of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Grodno Regional Executive Committee. Neither volunteers nor aircraft found any more leads.
At 20:00 on September 23, 2017, the boy was not found. Volunteers are currently looking for an overnight stay in an agro-town, many of them will spend the night in tents. They can continue their search tomorrow.
At 21:24 on the website of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Grodno Regional Executive Committee, the final information on the results of today appeared. Law enforcers summarize: a week of searches did not yield any results.
- For today, the already combed places have been worked out again. Large forces are thrown into checking all the pits that are located near the village - the press service of the ATC reports. - Deputy Head of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Grodno Regional Executive Committee Alexander Shastailo noted that today law enforcement officers once again went around all the houses in the village, checked attics and wells, and housing and communal services employees checked sewer hatches in order to exclude the possibility of a child getting there.
- It's nice to see how such events can bring people together. More than two thousand people came in search of Maxim from neighboring regions, - noted in the ATC. - Volunteers, the Red Cross, employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in spite of the weekend, came to provide assistance. And some, who could not come, help financially; a lot of food, water and essential goods have been brought for the volunteers. All this was received from caring citizens.
According to law enforcement officers, they are working out all possible versions and checking any information that comes to the headquarters.
- Once again I would like to focus on the problem of spreading false information, - warns ATC. - On some resources, they found news where they expressed condolences to the parents, as the boy was found dead in the noose. There was also news that EMERCOM officers saw him while flying in a helicopter, and he disappeared from them.
This information is not true. Each of those people who are there makes every effort to find Maxim. This kind of information can undermine the morale of people who work hard. And it's scary to imagine how parents and relatives will feel after reading this kind of misinformation.
The search for the missing Maxim Markhalyuk continues.
Grodno, 27 Sep - Sputnik, Inna Grishuk. Maxim Markhalyuk, who disappeared in the forest, had been thinking about running away from home, and for a long time. The residents of the village of Novy Dvor tell about this, in the surrounding forests of which they have been looking for a 10-year-old boy for the second week. Many are sure: the child was not lost, but deliberately left home.
Why go to the forest at night looking?
"I saw Maxim in the village on Saturday. At about five in the evening. I was in the forest before. I went out, and here Maxim was going. I told him:" Don't be afraid, Maxim, Rex doesn't bite. "And he says," I And I'm not afraid, "says Valentina Aleksandrovna, a resident of Novy Dvor, Maxim was friends with her son and often came to visit them.
According to Sputnik's interlocutor, her friend said that on the same day, but after 7 pm, she saw Maxim skating in the center of the village. And then - as he fell through the ground, everyone said that he had gone into the forest. But the woman is sure that going to the forest so late is not like Maxim. After all, at eight o'clock in the evening at this time of year it is already getting dark, and the boy would not want to go into darkness.
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"He was so a little cowardly. He was even afraid of my puppy. When he came to us, he usually stands near the gate and calls:" Ilyusha! "Or" Aunt Valya! "And I'll go out and take him into the house. at night it is unlikely for him to go ", - adds Valentina Aleksandrovna.
Many in the village agree that if the child had been in the forest that evening, he would have been found. After all, the search began immediately and continued even at night. And a child wandering through the night forest could not go far.
Made plans to escape for three years
The villagers assume that the boy could be very frightened of something. And not bison, but, for example, the impending punishment for some offense. "Maybe he was scared of his parents?" - the neighbors argue and tell one telling example.
Last year, for some reason, Maxim went to the lake alone, without his parents, went swimming and almost drowned. He was saved by people resting nearby. On that day, his parents punished him very severely, they say they even beat him.
Rumor has it that then the boy, either seriously, or out of resentment, told his parents: "I won't live with you and will run away anyway. You don't buy me anything, everything is for Sasha (elder brother - Sputnik)"
In the village, they also transmit the words of Maxim's own grandmother, who told how a grandson several years ago, when he was 7 or 8 years old, said: "I will run away from home anyway." Grandma to him: "You will be found." And he: "They will not find it, I will go to the swamps." And then he periodically said that he had such a plan.
Another resident of Novy Dvor, Tatyana Petrovna, said that the child has recently changed.
"Maxim has been friends with my grandson since the age of five. Always together when he is on vacation. And this year the grandson said that he would not be friends anymore. That Maxim started smoking, he behaved differently. Maybe it’s a teenage. I regret it, that she didn't tell her parents right away, it was her grandson who asked me not to tell anyone, "the villager recalls.
At the same time, the woman emphasizes several times that Maxim's family is very positive, prosperous, and the parents are hardworking.
Could leave
The main version, which residents of Novy Dvor are inclined to believe, is that Maxim left for another area, and he did it the same evening or the next morning.
The child most likely had money. Even local children say that it is very easy to earn them in Pushcha. For example, you can sell berries or mushrooms.
And everyone characterizes Maxim as a very lively and purposeful boy. It is said that he often went to the forest.
Tatyana Petrovna argues: "So many times they searched with thermal imagers, walked with dogs, and how many people passed through the forest on weekends. Ours are constantly walking. If the boy were here, they would find at least some traces."
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Rumors that at different times saw a child in the forest, then on the road, neighbors consider fiction. And they immediately ask: "If they saw the child, why didn't they catch up? Adults, after all. But it turns out that they saw and allowed to leave."
Many locals constantly go to the forest on their own to look for Maxim.
"The soul hurts for the boy and the family. We also do not sleep at night. I go to the forest every day and in the evening, I call him. So now I also go, maybe something will be found," adds Valentina Aleksandrovna.
Let us remind you that Maxim Markhalyuk disappeared on September 16 and was put on the national wanted list. On September 26, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case into the child's disappearance. Maxim has not yet been found. The main version of the police is that the boy got lost in the forest.
10 year old Maxim Markhalyuk, a resident of the village of Novy Dvor of the Svisloch region, have been looking for since September last year, but so far - to no avail. Local residents are asking for help through Belsat.
“I applied to establish justice. To appeal to the head of state so that all these villains who wanted to deliberately hide their tracks, or unintentionally, to be brought to justice, "said a resident of Belovezhskaya Pushcha and a former huntsman Igor Akulov.
Ten-year-old Maxim did not return home on September 16, 2017. In the forest not far from the house, they found the boy's bicycle and his basket. Thousands of people took part in the search.
“I think that it was on this road that something happened to this child. Because not a trace, nothing of this child is left. Officials ride, he could go out, vote in the evening, and it was a tragedy, "Akulov is sure.
The search for the boy began at night. The whole road was dug by the wheels of the members of the trophy club "Bialowieza Bison", who were invited to search. The road leads from the Voitov Most farm, where there is a hotel with a bathhouse owned by the Presidential Administration, through Novy Dvor, where the boy lived, to the lake, which is leased by the SPK.
“Officials and local nobility often rest in that hotel. On this road, they rush about like crazy, drunken ones, ”the former huntsman testifies.
Spetsdoroga
For officials, an asphalt road was laid here, not marked on maps, with guards and surveillance cameras. It connects the hotel on the Voitov Bridge farm with the village of Borki and leads to the airfield in Klepachi.
“It was necessary to search immediately, not according to the version of the disappearance, but according to the crime, I think. Because they were looking for so much, but no results, ”says another local Mikhail Sushko.
Investigation raises questions from experts
“From the very beginning of Markhalyuk's disappearance, the investigation dragged on for a long time - 10 days. Why was it drawn to when it was necessary to react to this? ", - draws attention to the former investigator Oleg Volchek.
The boy could not get lost in the forest without a trace.
People in the village are afraid to talk about this topic. Are officials afraid of investigative journalism?
“Everything should be neat. And rightly so !!! Because there were a lot of interpretations. You have come, you have come from different channels, television, radio. There must be one interpretation! Because they take from different people who are deprived of parental rights, and you are interviewing, they pour dirt there. All this must be done carefully ... Do you understand? (Smiles). Let's hope that you will do everything right ... ", - said the chairman of the village council Vladimir Zdanovich.
For the second month now, law enforcement officers and volunteers have been searching for a student who disappeared in mid-September. Maxim Markhalyuk went to Belovezhskaya Pushcha for mushrooms and never returned home. The internal affairs bodies of Belarus sent information about the missing boy through Interpol, but there is still no information about the child.
“AiF” recalls the cases when the missing children were still alive even after a long time.
Abduction
The disappearance of 5-year-old Yakov Ziborov became known in March 2016. Unidentified persons took the boy from the apartment in Moscow, where he lived with his grandparents. Russian law enforcement officials suggested that the disappearance of the child could be of a criminal nature.
For more than a year, the boy was searched around the world, including with the help of Interpol. As a result, he was found alive and well in June 2017 in the Mogilev region and handed over to his grandmother.
Representatives of the Investigative Committee of Russia reported that members of a radical religious community were involved in the kidnapping. Moreover, according to one of the versions, the mother of the child belongs to this community.
In 2010, a resident of the Kiev region, 10 years later, found her daughter, who was kidnapped at a train station in the Ukrainian capital in 2000 at the age of 4. The mother saw her daughter in one of the online editions of the program dedicated to the search for missing children. When they met, the girl could not even recognize her. The woman had to undergo a DNA examination and within two years prove her relationship with her daughter.
In 2008, in the Latvian Daugavpils, 16 years after his disappearance, a boy was found who was abducted at the age of one and a half months. As it turned out, all this time he lived next door to his real parents. The case of the missing child was solved by accident: the woman with whom he lived all these years ended up in a pre-trial detention center, the teenager was transferred to social service workers. Starting to collect documents for the boy, officials discovered that he did not have a birth certificate. After lengthy inquiries, the woman admitted that the child was adopted. DNA analysis fully confirmed the relationship of the lost child with the parents who have been looking for him all these years.
RUNNED FROM HOME
In March 2017, three children from Vitebsk went to school for classes, but never returned home. They took their passports and money with them, but left their cell phones and a note stating that they were leaving home.
A week later, the missing children were found almost 9 thousand km from their home in the Russian Khabarovsk. The schoolchildren were removed from the train on which they intended to get to Vladivostok.
In 2015, a mother and daughter were found in Russia, who disappeared in 2001, and since 2006 were presumed killed. It turned out that the residents of Grodno decided to break off all relations with their relatives and left for permanent residence in a neighboring country without informing anyone about it.
In Russia, mother and daughter lived without registration. Identity documents were not reissued.
LOST
In 2007, two girls from the Moscow region who attended the Young Biologist circle came to the Urals with a group of ecologists. In the area of \u200b\u200bthe reserve in the Sverdlovsk region, the girls were lost.
Children in the taiga ate berries, drank water from springs and streams, slept on cedar branches. Wandering in the forest, the girls walked tens of kilometers. The girls were trained to survive in nature in the classroom. The children were found alive and well by the foot rescue team after more than a week of searching.
