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Ukrainian soldier Gennadiy Chastiakov died this Monday, November 6, after opening his birthday presents.
INTERNATIONAL – “Gennadiy Chastiakov was killed… on his birthday.” A Ukrainian soldier, close adviser to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Valeri Zalouzhny, died this Monday, November 6, while opening his birthday presents.
If the message initially had the tone of a suspected assassination attempt, the initial elements of the investigation call this hypothesis into question. Gennadiy Chastyakov “came home from work with gifts from colleagues, which he began to show to his family,” Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said. “He pulled out a box of grenades and started showing them to his son. These were new models of Western grenades.”
The 13-year-old then picked up the ammunition and played with it, turning the grenade ring. His father pulled him away from the gun and put on the ring, causing the explosion, the department reports. The child was seriously injured and the grenade explosion killed his father.
The author of the gift has been identified
Gennady Chastyakov “devoted his entire life to the armed forces of Ukraine and the fight against Russian aggression,” said General Valery Zaluzhny, expressing his condolences to his family.
The soldier’s comrade who gave him the grenades was identified by police, who also collected the remaining grenades among the gifts for inspection, the Ukrainian newspaper Pravda reports. “Some reports suggest that the real grenade was among the novelty gifts shaped like grenades,” the Guardian also says.
Several photos of the alleged grenades are circulating in the Ukrainian press, without their authenticity being confirmed by the authorities. The Interior Minister called on the population not to spread unverified information and to wait for the official results of the investigation.
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