The wife of a marine who served in the Mykolaiv region does not believe in her husband's suicide and demands an exhumation

The Maslyukov couple. Photo from the family's personal archive published on the «UP» website

The wife of military marine Mykola Masliukov from Kropyvnytskyi, Tetiana Masliukova, does not believe in the suicide version of the man who died on September 9, 2022 near Mykolaiv, and demands an exhumation for further investigation. She is convinced that the version of the investigation is an attempt to hide the true circumstances of the death.

She told the journalists of Ukrainska Pravda about it.

According to Tatyana, the man served in the 501st separate battalion of marines. He was sent 70 kilometers from Mykolaiv to the village of Dmytrivka.

Tetiana Masliukova's last conversation with her husband was on the same day he died. According to her, he said he was on duty and was in a good mood.

«We just talked with him. Plans were made,» she recalls.

Later that evening, the platoon commander called her and informed her of her husband's death, noting that it looked like a suicide. Tetiana Masliukova disagrees with this version and insists that her husband could not have taken such a step.

She claims that the investigation did not conduct a proper investigation, and there are no witnesses to the incident. The military unit was obliged by the court to conduct a special investigation, but according to the woman, they never did it.

«Not a single bullet was found on the spot. The official investigation was not conducted properly,» she says.

According to Tetiana Masliukova, the case was repeatedly closed «due to the absence of a crime», but after the woman's appeals and appeals, the investigation was resumed. Now the case is in Mykolaiv Specialized Prosecutor's Office.

Tetiana Masliukova also claims that the results of the forensic examination contradict the conclusions of the investigation, and there are no documents that could confirm Mykola's «bad psycho-emotional state».

The woman also drew attention to the fact that her husband's phone, which was found at the scene, was «clean», all messages from messengers had been deleted.

The woman also emphasizes that the fingerprint data, which the woman ordered at her own expense, showed that there are no handprints on the AK-74 machine gun (with which the man allegedly shot himself).

«And the man was not wearing gloves — this is evidenced by the photos from the place where he was found,» the woman said.

Tetiana Masliukova has already spent more than 420,000 hryvnias on legal fees, additional examinations and court proceedings to prove that her husband did not die because of his own will.

Currently, the woman is trying to get the man's body exhumed to conduct an additional examination.

We will remind you that in January, in the village of Bereznehuvate in the Mykolaiv region, a serviceman shot the deputy company commander, after which he shot himself.