One of the largest searches for a missing boy in Belovezhskaya Pushcha. Maxim Markhaliuk disappeared in Belovezhskaya Pushcha a month ago

IN Belovezhskaya Pushcha. Maxim Markhaliuk 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, one of the largest in the country, took place in Novy Dvor. More than two thousand volunteers came to the Belarusian forest to help find Maxim. Unfortunately, there are no results so far.

Like the Tut portal. by, now a quiet and measured life continues in Maxim's native village. More recently, the headquarters of the Red Cross and many volunteers of the Angel detachment were located here.

The mother of the missing Maxim works at a 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 mother, but I can’t imagine how to help in this situation. Volunteers stayed with me all this time. She fed, hosted, - 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 Maksim has been put on the international wanted list. The Investigative Committee of Belarus has opened a criminal case on the fact of the disappearance of the boy.

On this moment Police officers are busy searching.

The search is currently ongoing. The 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 filing an application for the disappearance of the boy and the failure to establish his whereabouts in the course of the operational search activities, Sb. by official representative Investigative Committee Yulia Goncharova.

According to the press service of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Grodno Regional Executive Committee, police officers from the Svisloch, Slonim, Zelvensky, Mostovsky District Departments of Internal Affairs, military personnel are taking part in the search and rescue operation. internal troops and employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. Experts study the most difficult to pass and wetlands.

Do you know how many versions there were? No matter what people say: they say 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 for Maxim to be found alive and unharmed, - says the local priest Father Anatoly.

Despite the fact that Maxim has a Catholic family, in Orthodox church Novy Dvor people order services about the health of the child. This is how the unity of the inhabitants in a common misfortune 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 only about the family - simple hardworking people who work hard. Ordinary rural family. And Maxim is ordinary, mobile, like other children of his age.

The journalists drove up to the place where all operations began - a hut called the base. Here the rescuers found Maxim's abandoned bike. At the moment it's empty here, now into the forest of your children locals are not allowed.

Yes, and for us, adults, it’s a little scary to go into the thicket - now something incomprehensible seems to be behind every tree, because there are many versions of the missing boy. It is not clear what really happened, - says a local resident Vera.

Everyone seems to know about Maxim's birthday in a small agricultural town. The locals say: he turned 11. A month has passed since they are looking for Maxim.

On the weekend of September 23 and 24, several thousand volunteers from all over the country and even abroad came to the agricultural town of Novy Dvor to help in the search for a 10-year-old boy who disappeared in Belovezhskaya Pushcha. The Euroradio correspondent turned into a volunteer for one day and joined the largest search operation in the history of Belarus.

CAMP, around 9 am

In total, on Saturday, September 23, about a thousand volunteers from all over Belarus gathered here. It is cold and overcast in the morning, everyone is worried that it will not rain. All reflective vests, which are distributed free of charge. Someone wraps their legs with cellophane and tape.

The camp of volunteers and the search and rescue squad "Angel" is located on the territory of the school stadium. Here they distribute food, pour hot tea and coffee, give out water and something to eat. All this is done by volunteers. People pass whole packages of cereals, stew, instant puree, coffee, tea, sugar, water. The school and the local executive committee allowed the use of their premises for the weekend, including the kitchen and toilet, but only until 4 p.m., then they are closed.

Volunteers are sent here to search. Each group has between 20 and 80 people, depending on how large territories they will check. In addition to volunteers, there are always representatives of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and foresters in the detachment.

The entire area around the village is divided into squares to make it easier to distribute them for testing. Volunteers are sent to check only the forest, rescuers and the military are engaged in swamps, and divers are engaged in reservoirs.

Every now and then they announce over the speakerphone that they are looking for among the volunteers experienced trackers, hunters, or at least just those who know how to use a compass and navigate the map. Unfortunately, "Angel" was not ready for such an influx of volunteers, and they did not have the right amount coordinators, walkie-talkies and ammunition.

Helicopters of the Ministry of Emergency Situations fly overhead, they circle over the forest all day in an attempt to notice a boy among the trees. At night, they also check the surrounding area with a thermal imager. So far, however, the search has turned up nothing.

Everyone feels impatience before going out into the forest and a slight excitement. Some have been here since Friday, others have just arrived. But everyone is cheerful, drinking coffee from plastic cups, discussing the latest rumors.

Rumors here spread quickly and are most often completely unreliable. Allegedly, somewhere they saw some boy at the edge of the forest, but he, noticing the volunteers, ran away, or that they saw a guy from a helicopter who was hiding among the trees. All these conversations and rumors are not confirmed in any way and are most often officially refuted, but this does not prevent people from believing in them.

I'm in a squad of 80 people. We have only 8 coordinators and three walkie-talkies. Coordinators - young guys and girls, 25 years old, from regional offices search squad "Angel".

We were divided into cars, we leave in a given square in a column.

ROAD, about 10 am

Once in an old UAZ car of the regional Ministry of Emergency Situations, we, bouncing on the pits, head towards the desired section of the forest. Driving through the village, one of the rescuers remarks:

- You look, the locals don't care anymore, only visitors participate in the search.

- Well, what, life goes on, and the potatoes are not harvested and the mushrooms are flooded like crazy.

- They drove people from two regions. I heard that the special forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the soldiers were driven into the swamp to check. And yesterday, all night long, helicopters circled over the forest with a thermal imager, they say, they found a couple of points, then we were sent there. And there was nothing there.

- What about volunteers?

- Volunteers were not touched, only us. We statesmen, we can, we are on a salary.

The conversation is interrupted, and they begin to discuss volunteers:

Did you hear what they said today? Drive the guy like a "beast".

- Yes, they have come, he is already like a beast for everyone. They want to drive him out of the forest like an animal.

- Yes, you look at them, all with knives, they are not shy about anything.

- Well, what did you want, they say to everyone that lynxes and wolves are found here. We have a lynx on every tree, which strives to jump on someone.

SEARCH, around 11 a.m.

Our square turns out to be about five kilometers from the village.

A chain of 80 people line up along the road. It stretches for 400 meters. Every 10 volunteers there is a coordinator. But there are only three walkie-talkies, two on the sides of the chain and one in the center. During the briefing, they explain how to move, when to stop, what to check and what to look for.

In the forest, the chain of people is constantly torn, someone runs forward, someone, on the contrary, lags behind, then they scatter from each other, then they huddle together. Most of the volunteers are participating in the search for the first time, they are inexperienced, wayward and think they know what is right. How more group, the more difficult it is to coordinate it, and if there are few walkie-talkies, then it is almost impossible.

We move forward slowly, we often stop, this annoys many. From time to time disputes break out with the coordinators, someone does not like the way they lead.

“Vanya, turn off this radio and go as we go, we won’t stop, otherwise we’ll walk one kilometer all day,- the guy with the inscription "Ivatsevichi Ultras" on the T-shirt is indignant. - Did these coordinators even finish school? Or even an army? We recruited from ads.

Vanya does not listen to him, although he gets angry and quarrels with the coordinators. People move forward, but after a minute they stop again.

We pass the first section of the forest, we go out into the field. People scattered so far from each other that the last ones left the forest about ten minutes after the appearance of the first. We walked a little over a kilometer and it took about half an hour. Searches in this area turned up nothing. The coordinators decide to break into several small groups of 20-30 people and check out smaller areas.

We come across a field to a pure pine forest. The wind blows through it, there are no bushes here, only moss and tall pines. There is nowhere to hide here. At the edge of the grove they find a jacket of a child's size, which the spiders have already settled in and made small cobwebs there, shoes are lying nearby. And although the jacket and boots do not fit the description, some people begin to play detectives:

So you think it's normal- asks one of the girls, who loves to voice various "terrible" versions of what happened to the missing boy, - why are some children's clothes just lying around in the forest?

- What do you think, is there some kind of pagan cult operating here, like in True Detective? one of the volunteers convinces her.

The girl falls silent, but clearly remains unsatisfied. The coordinators take pictures of the jacket and boots, mark the place on the map and move on. Having passed Pinery we are back on the field. Now we unite with the second group from our detachment. The people who went to the cars did not return.

In the distance, on the outskirts of the forest, some figure in a red vest is visible. According to the descriptions, the guy was just like that. The coordinators send one of their own to check. It turns out that this is one of the soldiers.

We enter another grove, a continuous windbreak. And then screams from somewhere on the side:

"AAA, *****, ****** MOTHER, AAAAA!"

The crackling of branches is heard, someone breaks out of the thicket to the field without understanding the road. Well, everything, I think, ran into a bear. A roe deer flies out of the forest and jumps away from us.

Michael, in his 30s seasoned hunter, came here from Grodno, says that his ten-year-old son was torn with him, but, fortunately, he did not take him and does not regret:

“We talked with the guys here and came to a consensus: our search is not so much a hope to find him alive, but to learn about his fate in general. It is unlikely that he is still alive. Because it can't be that so many people have been looking for it for more than a week and couldn't find anything."

Toward evening we set off on our return journey. After checking a few more sections of the forest, we go out onto the road and are already walking along it.

“This is the first time in our memory such a complex and massive search. Usually, we have a maximum of 30-40 people involved in the search, but this time the numbers are already in the thousands. Of course, the organization is chaotic, no one with such big amount didn't care about people says the coordinator. “We had searches and five days when the grandmother got lost in the forest, we later found her alive, she slept peacefully in some kind of hollow, and all these days she ate berries and plants.”

We return to the cars. In almost seven hours of searching, we found several unidentified footprints, several jackets, one of which was for a child, and old size 40 boots that were unlikely to belong to a 10-year-old boy. According to representatives of the Angel squad, other groups also did not find anything. The boy disappeared, as if he had been swallowed up by the Belarusian Khton.

CAMP, around 6pm

In the meantime, life is in full swing in the camp. They brought hot food. Everyone is tired, in the web, in the mud, despite the fact that there was warm weather and there was no rain, the forest was damp and there were many puddles. The school closed and blocked volunteers' access to water, electricity and toilets. Fortunately, during this time, they managed to bring dry closets. Water was heated on portable gas stoves and in kettles, connected to a single gasoline generator.

During this time, a mobile shop "Belkoopsoyuz" appeared in the camp. For some, volunteering and free help, and for others, business.

Closer to 19:00, the military arrived with a field kitchen and provided the camp with hot food. Those who have been here since Friday are about to leave, but new ones are taking their place. Most spend the night in cars, someone - in tents or lodges with locals. Why the school could not provide at least a gym for an overnight stay is not clear, especially since there are no classes on weekends anyway.

There will be no outings at night. The Ministry of Emergency Situations plans to once again check the entire forest using a thermal imager on helicopters. This search, like the previous ones, will give nothing.

In the evening I am leaving by a passing car back to Minsk. Many stay on the second day, but few hope to find the guy alive. We drive out to the main street of the Novy Dvor agro-town, local residents are standing near their fences, looking at the cars of volunteers. The sun is setting. Tomorrow there will be new searches, which will also bring nothing. And life for everyone else will go on.

GRODNO, September 27 - Sputnik, Inna Grishuk. Maksim Markhaliuk, who disappeared in Pushcha, had been thinking about running away from home for a long time. This is told by the inhabitants of the village of Novy Dvor, in the surrounding forests of which they have been looking for a 10-year-old boy for the second week already. Many are sure: the child was not lost, but consciously left home.

Why go to the forest at night looking?

“I saw Maxim in the village on Saturday. At five o’clock in the evening. Before that, I was in the forest. I went out, and then Maxim was going. and I’m not afraid,” says Valentina Alexandrovna, a resident of Novy Dvor, Maxim was friends with her son and often came to visit them.

According to the interlocutor of Sputnik, her friend said that on the same day, but after 19:00, she saw Maxim riding in the center of the village. And then - as if 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 the year it is already getting dark, and the boy would not want to go into the 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 to the house. it’s unlikely for him to go at night, ”adds Valentina Alexandrovna.

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 have gone 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 coming punishment for some kind of offense. "Maybe he was afraid 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 nearly drowned. He was rescued by people nearby. On that day, his parents severely punished him, they say, 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 I’ll run away anyway.

In the village, the words of Maxim's own grandmother are also transmitted, who told how her grandson several years ago, when he was 7 or 8 years old, said: "I will run away from home anyway." Grandmother to him: "They will find you." And he: "They won't find me, I'll 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 in Lately has 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 no longer be friends. That Maxim started smoking, he behaved differently. Maybe it’s teenage. that I didn’t tell my parents right away, it was my grandson who asked me not to tell anyone,” recalls the villager.

At the same time, the woman emphasizes several times that Maxim's family is very positive, prosperous, hardworking parents.

Could leave

The main version, which the residents of Novy Dvor are inclined to believe, is that Maxim left for another locality, and did so on 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: “We searched so many times with thermal imagers, walked with dogs, and how many people passed through the forest on the weekends. Ours are constantly walking. If the boy were here, they would have found at least some traces.”

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Rumors that in different time they saw a child either in the forest or on the road, the neighbors consider it fiction. And they immediately ask: "If they saw a child, why didn't they catch up? They are adults. But it turns out that they saw and were allowed to leave."

Many locals constantly go to the forest on their own to look for Maxim.

“My soul hurts for the boy and for the family. We also don’t sleep at night. I go to the forest every day and in the evening, I call him. And now I’m going too, maybe something will be found,” adds Valentina Aleksandrovna.

Recall that Maxim Markhaliuk disappeared on September 16, was put on the national wanted list. On September 26, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case into the disappearance of the child. Maxim has not been found yet. The main version of the police - the boy got lost in the forest.

The New Court meets with unusual silence. A week ago it was noisy and crowded here. Over the past two weeks, hundreds of volunteers have visited the agro-town. The largest search operation took place here. Volunteers, employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, police and foresters were looking for Maxim Markhaliuk, who was lost in the forest. At the moment, searches in Belovezhskaya Pushcha continue, but on a smaller scale.

The camp of the search and rescue squad "Angel" moved to a site near the village council. Gradually, the agro-town returns to its ordinary life. But fellow countrymen are still talking about the missing boy - this is the number one topic. It seems that over the past two weeks, all versions have already been discussed.

And now it is very difficult to separate the rumors that fill the village from the facts. People retell each other daily information about search results, supplementing official versions with their details.

In the morning, the headquarters of the search and rescue squad "Angel" is quiet and not crowded. Volunteers - and today, on Friday, September 29, there are 60 of them on the list - went into the forest for another “combing” of the area.

Are you newcomers? asks the girl near the tents. Having learned that we are journalists, he habitually reports the situation: the search continues, volunteers are working.

A large number of people, as was the case here a week ago, are not expected in Novy Dvor this weekend. Yes, and ordinary citizens are asked not to go in search. Everything that unprepared people could do has been done. Next is the work of professionals.

“We examined literally everything. They even found World War I bunkers. At the moment, believe me, there is no place in the ten-kilometer zone around the village where the search engine has not set foot. The headquarters will meet tonight, where volunteers will also be present. We will add up all the maps of the surveyed areas, and if the headquarters has even the slightest suspicion that white spots remain, special groups will be organized, which will not be the first time participating in the search. Spots will be worked out already by them. Volunteers have nothing to comb through here. Abandons, forests, corn, fields, lakes, swamps - everything has been inspected, - says a representative of the search and rescue team Kirill Golubev.

In the situational headquarters, which is located in the building of the village council, it is also unusually quiet. Today, 41 rescuers are participating in the search.

- We will continue the search until any result or special instructions regarding this search operation, - say the employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations at the headquarters.
By lunchtime, a small group of volunteers comes out of the forest to refresh themselves, talk about the work done, and again go in search.

- You know, during this time, a lot of versions of the boy's disappearance were discussed. But all this is speculation and rumors, the only thing that remains is that the boy has not yet been found, the guys say.

Most of the volunteers who are now in Novy Dvor have been here since the beginning of the search operation. Behind many - repeated searches for missing people. In conversations, they recall how they were looking for a teenage girl or a missing mushroom picker. But the operation in Novy Dvor, according to volunteers, differs not only in scale, but also in some special unity of people.

— Local residents always responded to all our requests. Maybe they are a little tired of so many people, but we are very grateful to them for their help. Many of them participated in the search from the first days, says the volunteer Nastya.

The girl has been here for several days.

- Look, even on the tent there is a list of phone numbers of those who can take them for the night. Probably, there may be dissatisfied with so many people in the village. Some said that the forest had been trampled, but our commanders even removed the garbage along the way.

One of the local residents who went out in search is Alexei. The young man says that he went into the forest with everyone and hoped very much that the boy would be found.

And now I hope. They say a lot in the village - both about crime, and about the fact that he could have run away on purpose, and that he could have gone somewhere in a passing car, - lists Alexei. But what of this is true is no longer clear.

- We are all, of course, worried about the disappearance of Maxim. The question remains: where is he? Why didn't they find it? Many are sure that he is not in the forest, but in some other place, but where? says the young mother Julia and recalls that the boy was often left to his own devices. - I rode all summer on a bicycle around the village, I could even go far enough - for example, to the lake.

The locals seem to be tired of the media attention, a large number people in the village. True, they say that the search for the boy was followed not only with his own eyes, but also on TV.

Grandmother Vera says that this is the first such case in the village when a child disappears in the surrounding forests.

- 83 years I live and I don’t remember such a thing. Ale that, which was advancing the weights, looked at the televisars, but far away and the center of the sky - the feet of the ailment. And the asablіva didn’t know the cotton, and didn’t care for the visiting ones - hung the tlums of the kala of the village council, but we were like a ciha, she says.

Meanwhile, a group of volunteers again goes in search of Maxim. They will inspect the forest near the hut, where last time saw the boy. According to his friends, he went to the "base" - this is how the locals call a wooden gazebo near the village. Allegedly, Maxim went there for mushrooms.

- You know, there are very few leads, even fewer facts. Each version is checked and rechecked several times. They said that some mushroom picker saw Maxim in the forest, but the mushroom picker himself was never found. It seems that the neighbor saw the boy for the last time on the road at half past seven in the evening, but then it was already twilight. And all this with the word "like". Unnecessary information and rumors really interfere with the work of searchers-volunteers and specialists, volunteers say.

The so-called savages also became a problem for the search and rescue squad - people who came to search, succumbing to an impulse, and independently went into the forest, without registration.

— It was important for us not to lose anyone during the search and rescue operation, because it is very difficult to organize such a large number of people. Some do not understand why we are standing and not going into the forest, some are wandering through the woods in search of mushrooms, some have sat down to rest,” says Kirill Golubev.

The search continues. The boy has not yet been found.

Recall that the boy disappeared in Belovezhskaya Pushcha on the evening of September 16. At about 20.00 he rode his bicycle towards the forest near the village of Novy Dvor and disappeared. Later, police officers found the child's bicycle in the forest. Look for a child last days hundreds of volunteers volunteered. So far, the search has yielded no results.

A month ago Maxim Markhaliuk disappeared in Belovezhskaya Pushcha. Exactly a month ago, on September 16, the then 10-year-old Maxim Markhaliuk, alone without adults, went into the forest for mushrooms and did not return. After 31 days, the child has not been found. Where they looked for the boy, what versions were considered and whether there are results a month later - the chronology of events of the largest operation in the country. The boy lives in the village of Novy Dvor, Svisloch district, Grodno region. For the first time, hours after it became known about the disappearance of the boy, local residents and the police took part in the search. Three dogs were put on the trail, and nothing. On Sunday, about 150 people were involved in the search. On September 18, the first information about the missing Maxim appeared in the media. Rescuers, police, hundreds of volunteers immediately began to arrive at the scene. public organizations- "TsetrSpas", "Belovezhskie Zubr" - with lanterns comb the forest meter by meter. The search engines from the "Angel" detachment also arrived. A rescue helicopter circled the area, but no sign of the Boys was found. The main version - Maxim was lost in Belovezhskaya Pushcha. Every day, volunteers, volunteers, police and the Ministry of Emergency Situations combed the forest. September 22 was the sixth day of the search. Emergency helicopters were involved. 20 specialists from the Ministry of Emergency Situations arrived in Pushcha, with the appropriate search skills in such difficult conditions. Rescuers have drones and thermal imagers, which will allow them to search for the missing child at night. In addition, cynologists with service dogs and divers from the Ministry of Emergency Situations arrived in the Svisloch district. About two thousand volunteers worked at the place where the child went missing, and about 60 square kilometers of the forest were surveyed in six days. The search was complicated by the fact that the area where the child disappeared is a protected area, and sanitary deforestation has never been carried out there. In addition, there are many swamps in the search area, which also complicated combing woodland. But the search for the boy did not bring results. A mass gathering was scheduled for the first weekend. On September 23 and 24, more than 2,000 people took part in the search for the missing boy in Belovezhskaya Pushcha. Whole families came to search, and not only from Belarus. The square of searches was significantly expanded, at night they continued to search for the boy with a thermal imager. But the search again did not bring results. Then the first suggestions appeared that perhaps the boy was not in the forest. On September 26, volunteers and volunteers continued to look for the boy. Mostly civilians were sent to comb the forest, while more trained people explored the swampy area. The headquarters still adhered to the main version - Maxim could be frightened by bison and he went far into the forest. On the same day, September 26, the Svisloch district department of the Investigative Committee initiated a criminal case into the disappearance on September 16 of a resident of the village of Novy Dvor, Svisloch district, Grodno region, in accordance with paragraph 2 of article 167 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Belarus. The basis for the adoption of this procedural decision was the expiration of ten days from the date of filing an application for the disappearance of the child and the failure to establish his whereabouts in the course of the operational search activities. But literally the next day, September 27, the media appeared new information that the boy deliberately ran away from home, and that Maxim had been planning an escape for 3 years. In the village, the words of Maxim's grandmother, who told how her grandson several years ago, when he was 7 or 8 years old, said: "I will run away from home anyway." Grandmother to him: "They will find you." And he: "They won't find me, I'll go to the swamps." And then he periodically said that he had such a plan. Now the locals adhered to a different version, that Maxim left for another area, and did it on 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. Meanwhile, in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, the search for Maxim Markhaliuk went on for the 11th day. Unfortunately, no new traces of Maxim have been found. With each day of searching, the hope of finding Maxim in Belovezhskaya Pushcha faded away. And the longer they searched for the boy, the more questions appeared. Hundreds of volunteers, police officers, military personnel, foresters, rescuers, local residents participated in the search activities, drones with thermal imagers and aviation of the Ministry of Emergency Situations were involved - and not a single trace. Even criminal versions began to be discussed. But no specifics. Maybe the child was kidnapped - but by whom and why? Could a poacher accidentally shoot him in the forest? However, until now, the search engines have not found any traces that could be hooked on. On September 29, it was a pleasant decision that, in order to simplify the work and increase the efficiency of the inspection of the allocated territory, trained specialists and coordinators of the PSO "TsentrSpas" (Grodno, Grodno region), local residents will take part in the search for Maxim Markhaliuk. Mass was no longer required. Other information began to appear on the Internet that it is possible that the child crossed the border with Poland. However, the leadership of the Polish part of Belovezhskaya Pushcha stated that the boy had no opportunity to get to Poland. “It’s impossible: there are too many fences. Through the forest all the way state border stretches high fence. On October 1, rescuers began to check new version that the child is in one of the dangerous swamps in the surrounding villages. And the volunteers from the detachments were asked not to comb the forests and the surroundings of the village of Novy Dvor anymore - the reason was that the volunteers had nothing to check, and the version that the child got lost or hid in the forest was not confirmed. On October 3, OMON joined the search for Maxim Markhaliuk. The militia continued to work out all versions of disappearance of the boy. At the same time, hundreds of messages came from psychics and clairvoyants. Some of them have even been tested. But none of the versions brought results. On October 4, a Polish regional information website reported that the Siedlce police were investigating a report about an unknown boy who was driving into the city, hiding in a van, and then fled. After information appeared that in Poland an unknown boy hid in a truck and then fled (and this information caused a wide public outcry in Belarus and the border regions of Poland), local police officers tracked down the driver who sent them this information through the website and showed to him a photograph of Maksim Markhaliuk, who disappeared in Belarus. The trucker confidently stated - no, it was not Maxim in his car: that boy was swarthy, presumably a gypsy. On October 6, Maxim Markhaliuk was put on the international wanted list: Interpol also joined the search for the boy: information about the signs, as well as a photograph of the Belarusian, appeared on the website of the international agency. In addition, a photograph and a description of Maxim's appearance were handed over to law enforcement officers in neighboring countries. Meanwhile, in the agro-town of Novy Dvor, the 21st day of searching was underway. Law enforcement officers, including riot police, worked at the scene. The search continued. On October 10, Maxim Markhaliuk, who disappeared in Belovezhskaya Pushcha on September 16, turned 11 years old. The boy continued to search for 26 days. So far, no new circumstances have come to light. Psychics also joined the search for Maxim Markhaliuk, who disappeared in Belovezhskaya Pushcha. Several people came to Pushcha to check their versions, told the police their assumptions, someone told about visions. But none of the versions of psychics was confirmed. About ten psychics from Belarus tried to find Maxim. A month and nothing...