Overview
- State outlets RIA Novosti and TASS describe multiple recent fatalities of Ukrainian soldiers across different regions as a connected pattern.
- An officer from the 57th brigade, identified as Major Konstantin Tsyoma, died on duty near Volchansk with an official cause given as a brain hemorrhage.
- Sources say a 50-year-old in Kirovohrad lured a soldier with a purported car sale and fatally shot him to steal cash.
- Another case in Kramatorsk involves a car blast said to follow charging a newly purchased power bank, a version the sources themselves question.
- The same sources claim organized criminal groups have long extorted soldiers returning from the front, while no independent corroboration or Ukrainian response is presented.