Overview
- A reconstruction worker reported a bag or backpack with human remains in the Golyanovsky pond in east Moscow.
- Forensic specialists preliminarily identified the victim as a minor about 7–10 years old, with an initial estimate that death occurred within roughly two days.
- Investigators opened a murder case under Article 105 of the Russian Criminal Code and secured the site as police and MChS divers conducted searches.
- Divers completed the pond examination and responders left the area while forensic work continues.
- Authorities are assessing whether the fragments belong to the boy found on a Balashikha apartment balcony, following the grandmother’s statement that the mother’s partner took the child.