It became known whether the missing boy Maxim Markhaluk was found in Belovezhskaya Pushcha. Will he be found? Missing children who were found alive after a long time "I do not believe in any of the versions"
For the thirteenth day in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, they have been searching for ten-year-old Maxim Markhaliuk, who went missing. Volunteers and rescuers combed hundreds of hectares of forest, examined huge swamps, but so far have not found any new traces.
Volunteers are looking for traces of Maxim
At about 11 am, the headquarters near the village council is almost empty. On the site - two female volunteers and a coordinator. After the weekend, the number of volunteers in Novy Dvor decreased significantly. That is why the day before the Red Cross rolled up its tent and left, promising that it would return as soon as people began to arrive en masse.
Now the headquarters is deserted. The coordinator is responsible for sending everyone on a search, and for bringing lunch on time.
Now the search and rescue squad "Angel" must take care of preparing dinner, and if necessary, provide medical assistance to those who return from the forest.
On September 27, 46 people gathered to search. They came from Grodno, Minsk, Brest and even Gomel regions. Of these, three search groups were organized.
Combing the forest, people line up in long chains and walk slowly, inspecting the territory.
As in the previous days, the guys went to comb the forest in the areas indicated by the leadership of the headquarters. The task has not changed - you need to look for any signs of the boy's presence in the forest. Cores, corn cobs, mushrooms and suspicious items.
Each search party receives such a card.
In the forest, everyone must be in bright vests.
“Each group has an experienced coordinator, the rest line up in a chain, go into the forest and follow the commands of the elder,”- explains the principle of work of the search groups volunteer detachment "Angel" Anastasia Saltykova.
Fantik in the forest - a big joint
If at least someone from the live chain sees something suspicious, they immediately say “stop”. Then the place should be inspected by the leader of the group. Volunteers say that even the buried earth is alarming them.
“I know that village boys can build underground hiding places and dugouts. Finding them is extremely difficult. I always looked to see if the moss was raised,- says volunteer Olga.
A live chain can stretch for a kilometer or more.
During the movement, volunteers are reminded to look not only under their feet, but also up, and also turn around. After all, you can pass and not notice something behind a tree or a high stump. When a group walks through the forest, candy wrappers, water bottles, and cigarette butts must be taken with you.
“If you leave, it’s a big joint. This is strictly prohibited. If they are found during the second combing of the area, then the question arises - whose are they. They can become a false trail,- adds the girl.
A mine as deep as a high-rise building
“Tell me, maybe they found the boy Maxim”?- heard from the radio. The guys sigh sadly and answer: “I really want to, but not yet.”
It's almost 16:00 on the clock, and lunch has just begun at the headquarters. Volunteers pour soup, make sandwiches.
The search group does not begin to dine strictly according to the schedule, but after it examines the assigned territory.
“We got out to chew and immediately shurshim back”,- the man quickly explains to someone on the phone. Nearby, the guys are discussing the trip: “We worked out a military mine. 12 floors down. They went down by six, but didn’t go any further - they realized that there was no point in going deeper.”
The guys look exhausted, they smoke nervously, but they ask the headquarters to quickly give them a new search square.
Ilya, Yegor and Alexander are looking for a child almost around the clock during the week.
“Already the seventh day here or the eighth. Already confused. We sleep in the car. We slept for a couple of hours - and then we went to look,- says Ilya, who came from Minsk.
Everyone admits that they will not be able to sleep peacefully until Maxim is found. In order not to interrupt the search, many took time off or vacation.
Like searching in a swamp
At the morning meeting, the headquarters decided that now more people should be sent to the swamp. Neither volunteers nor journalists are allowed to enter such difficult areas.
The swamps in Novy Dvor are such that fishing boots are indispensable.
These works are performed by experienced rescuers. But a small detachment of volunteers agreed to show how they explore the swampy area. They have already managed to study the local forests quite well. They admit: during the search, sometimes they had to go into the quagmire.
“The swamp here is such that you can sink up to your chest into the water. And this is three kilometers from Novy Dvor,”- says Ilya, when we arrived at the point.
The guys before departure put on high fishing boots, some - rubber overalls. They say that this is not the most difficult section. Employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations are also exploring more unsteady swamps.
Even very close to the road there are deep and swampy places.
It is really difficult to walk through such a forest. In one place - a bump, and next to it - water. The group moved no more than 50 meters from the road, and in the swamp there began to be places where water reaches an adult to the waist and above. Guys say: “We are waist-deep, and the child? But we believe that Maksimka didn’t go here.”
Local Resident: It's Impossible to Get Lost Here
In the meantime, the inhabitants of the New Yard also do not stand aside and, as far as possible, go to the forest. Someone - with the "Angel" group, and someone - on their own.
When asked where Maxim could be, they answer differently. But every day there is less and less support for the version of the police that the boy got lost in the forest. A rumor went around the village that the child could have run away from home and gone in an unknown direction.
“I do not believe that Maxim could get lost in these forests. We checked every meter of the forest around the village and found nothing. Don't you think it's strange?"- says 22-year-old resident of Novy Dvor Vadim.
The guy from the first day in his free time with volunteers and volunteers is looking for Maxim. He was one of the first to know about the missing boy. He recalls that then, on September 16, literally in half an hour, the whole village went up in search. Some walked through the forest, others - on cars and motorcycles went around all the roads, and every 100-150 meters they stopped and called the kid.
“We would definitely find him. If Maxim were in the forest and wanted to respond, he could go out to the people. Here, no matter which way you go, you will definitely end up either on the road or in some village. If he had wandered through the local forests all these 12 days, he would have left long ago or given himself away, ” the guy adds.
The boy could run away
Vadim shows the so-called base, near which on the first day of the loss they found the boy's bicycle and a basket of mushrooms. The base is called a hut knocked together from boards, which serves as a gathering place for village boys. Who built it, no one can remember.
Near the hut, which often visited Maxim. Vadim shows where Maxim's bike was found.
According to Vadim, the found basket did not belong to Maxim. This was confirmed by the parents of the child.
“She has always been here. On the evening of September 16, my mother was returning from the forest, passed by the hut, saw her. It was the so-called obshchak, in this basket the boys collected mushrooms together, and then handed over to the procurement point, ” explains Vadim.
Where the kids spent the money, he does not know. But he names approximate prices: for three kilograms of chanterelles you can get 12 rubles.
The guy is sure that the most plausible version is that the boy left the house on purpose. You need to look for it not in the forest, but in other villages or even cities.
"Angels": looking for a living boy
To date, police report only two pieces of evidence. This is Maxim's bike, which was standing near a hut in the forest about 800 meters from the village. A little later, a witness was found who, on the evening of September 16, saw Maxim or a boy similar to him in the forest south of Novy Dvor, who was sitting near a tree, and then ran away.
“If Maxim had stayed in the forest, they would have found at least something else. The police are not looking there. I think he reached the road and left somewhere,- argue two women at the door of the post office. They are also sure that there is no child in the forest.
"Where is he? Yes, who knows. Maybe someone took away, or maybe he ran away, ”- I hear in response.
The search and rescue squad "Angel" said that they are still considering two main versions - Maxim got lost in the forest or ran away and hides.
“We do not consider the criminal version. The Investigative Committee is working in this direction. We are looking for a living boy,- emphasizes the volunteer "Angel" Yuri Azanovich.
According to him, rescue and search activities will continue until the child is found.
Recall that 10-year-old Maxim Markhaliuk went to the forest for mushrooms on September 16 and still has not returned. Three days later, he was put on the nationwide wanted list. On September 26, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case into the disappearance of the boy. As of 09:00 September 28, Maxim was not found.
Maxim Markhaliuk from the agro-town of Novy Dvor, Svisloch district, disappeared a month ago, on September 16th. On October 10, the boy turned 11 years old. He is still being sought.
“The search will continue until the criminal case is opened. To close a criminal case, certain grounds are needed, which now do not exist,” Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Konstantin Shalkevich told Naviny.by.
According to him, additional surveys are being conducted on the spot, information is being exchanged.
The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the fact of the disappearance of Maxim Markhaliuk - in accordance with paragraph 2 of Art. 167 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (10 days after the disappearance).
The boy is on the international wanted list - Interpol is also looking for him. As Konstantin Shalkevich noted, when placing data on the missing person in the Interpol bank, information is communicated to employees who, by the nature of their activities, are engaged in the search for missing people.
“The mechanism of dissemination of information, methods and methods of work of foreign colleagues are the same as ours,” said the head of the information and public relations department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
- You pass Maxim's mother, she's at work, you don't want to say anything and ask. Nothing to say, nothing to ask. If she had any information, then everyone would already know. So what do you say? Once again to excite - it is simply impossible. After all, every time she again experiences tragedy. It can be seen that the person is thinner, emaciated - one cannot look without pain and tears. Remember when there was information about the Polish trail? So she straight up perked up when they said. And now ... Now she has this condition again ...
The largest search operation in the history of the country used aviation and unmanned aerial vehicles, professionals and volunteers participated.
On some days, more than two thousand people were involved in the search for the boy, Sergey Kovgan, commander of the Angel search and rescue team, told Naviny.by.
“Everything possible has been done on the spot. There are places left that no one can technically examine - swamps. We combed everything we could, several times, but there is no information about the whereabouts of the boy,” Kovgan said.
There is an algorithm for the search and rescue operation, the specialists know what and how to do, Sergey Kovgan emphasized: “The search for the boy has not been stopped, it is continued by the Angel squad by informing in all possible ways. So we do everything that depends on us. And law enforcement agencies are engaged in operational-search activities.”
Currently, the Angel squad is looking for more than 54 children, all of them disappeared even before Maxim Markhaliuk.
This year alone, Angel helped find dozens of people and thousands in five years of work. However, this public initiative rests only on the enthusiasm of people "who, out of a spiritual outburst, are ready to spend their time and energy in the name of finding other people."
The search for missing schoolboy Maxim Markhaliuk in Belovezhskaya Pushcha has been going on for more than a month.
Maxim Markhaliuk left home in the village of Novy Dvor (Svisloch district) on the evening of September 16th. Since then, the whereabouts of the boy is not known.
“At the moment, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, together with dog handlers and a special forces detachment, are searching for Maxim. In spite of everything, we do not lose hope that the boy will be found,” a member of the CenterSpas search and rescue team from Grodno told Sputnik.
Members of the detachment, according to CenterSpas representatives, always hope that the missing will be found sooner or later. Meanwhile, 40 days have passed since the disappearance of Markhaliuk.
The whole country continues to follow the search for Maxim. In the midst of search activities, more than a thousand people from all over the country came to the village of Novy Dvor - volunteers from the Angel, CenterSpas and other search teams wanted to help the police and the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
Ten days after the disappearance of the boy, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case. Law enforcement agencies are working out all possible versions of the disappearance of Maxim, but so far the situation with the disappearance of the child has not cleared up.
In the Novy Dvor itself, at the mention of the name of Maxim, they only shrug and sigh. On October 10, the boy had a birthday - he turned 11 years old. The villagers hoped that they would still find Maxim by his birthday, but the child is still missing.
- Absolutely no news. Nobody tells us anything. The Investigative Committee works and does not share anything with us, - says Alla Goncharevich, director of the school where Maxim's mother works. “If my parents knew anything, we would know too. And so ... Absolutely nothing. We do not leave hope. In fact, there is no child.
But you never know, there are different fantastic cases. This is not a standard situation. In a simple situation, we had to find him right away at night, well, let it be on Sunday. Well, at least on the third day. The situation is simply unusual. There have already been such searches that it is impossible to come up with, even think of something. All guesses are already at the level of fantasy. From the experience of books, movies and life. It's hard to come up with something new.
According to Alla Ivanovna, of course, the mother is most worried about her son.
- You pass Maxim's mother, she's at work, you don't want to say anything and ask. Nothing to say, nothing to ask. If she had any information, then everyone would already know. So what do you say? Once again to excite - it is simply impossible.
After all, every time she again experiences tragedy. It can be seen that the person is thinner, emaciated - one cannot look without pain and tears. Remember when there was information about the Polish trail? So she straight up perked up when they said. And now ... Now she has this condition again ...
Valentina herself does not particularly want to talk to reporters.
“And what can I say if there is no information,” she explains in a quiet, exhausted voice. - I'm calling, but there is no information ...
More than two thousand people gathered in Belovezhskaya Pushcha on Saturday, who came with the only hope - to find 10-year-old Maxim Markhaliuk as soon as possible. The boy went to the forest for mushrooms on September 16 and still has not returned. The bulk of the volunteers are ordinary Belarusians, who before that only went to the forest to pick mushrooms.
All volunteers were given colorful vests for free.
The correspondent joined one of the search parties and went into the forest.
Previously, they went in crowds, today the tasks are set by the headquarters
At 8 o'clock in the morning, a camp of volunteers was set up at the school stadium in the village of Novy Dvor. Dozens of cars and hundreds of people gathered. Everyone is invited to the loudspeaker to register in the blue tent in the center of the stadium.
The headquarters of the search operation deployed at the stadium of the local school
“Indicate the name, surname, phone number, registration number of the car. Write if you know how to read maps, navigate in the forest, what equipment they brought. If you don't have experience, don't worry, most of them are. We need everything", - volunteers explain and show where you can get a bright vest for free.
The lists are growing every minute. The geography of visitors is amazing - Minsk, Gomel, Brest, Grodno, Mogilev, numerous regional centers. Most admit: "Searching for a person is the first time". But people are ready to go both into the forest and into the swamp - just to find the boy alive.
“During the week, while there was no headquarters, people went into the forest in a crowd, sometimes 180 people at a time. We work in smaller groups - from 10 to 30 people. It’s more productive, so we better close the territory.”, - says the head of the search and rescue team "Center Spas" from Grodno Alexander Kritsky.
According to him, now the task is set by the headquarters. Registration is needed so that the leaders of the search operation know how many people they have at their disposal.
SUVs sent off-road
One of the first tasks was given to a group of guys in off-road vehicles. They have six cars and one ATV.
The guys on SUVs were instructed to monitor difficult forest roads
“We represent the off-road jeep trial club Citadel from Brest. On Friday they called. Someone came immediately, someone - today. Nobody remained indifferent. They took a thermal imager, a power plant, flashlights, searchlights, radio stations, cars are equipped with navigators., - says the leader of the mini-squad Pavel Stasyuk.
The lead car is driven by an experienced driver Evgeniy. He is a truck driver, the day before he returned from a business trip abroad and immediately went to Pushcha. The team is studying a map that shows a piece of forest with a perimeter of about 40 kilometers. The headquarters instructed to bypass all roads and hard-to-reach passages for ordinary cars in the indicated square.
“People have never been searched, but we have a clearly defined task. The experience of passing impassable places off-road, through swamps on off-road vehicles will help, and this is already a big deal. ”, says the elder.
Searches are also being carried out on the territory of the protected area of the Belovezhskaya Pushcha reserve
Experience was needed as soon as we turned onto a wild forest path. There are pits, deep puddles, potholes on it, sometimes fallen young trees or branches block the passage.
“Look carefully around, suddenly something will flash, maybe today you are lucky and we will see a boy”, Pavel advises.
In the square allotted to us, the cars parted to the sides in order to monitor all the small passages. Communication takes place only by walkie-talkies, since there is communication only in rare villages.
They checked pipes, cellars, looked for beds
The team was ready to work until dark. Everyone believes that the boy is alive, but just hiding somewhere. Yesterday, the guys all day in the same area of the forest examined abandoned houses, farms, cellars and sheds.
“Yesterday my shoes got wet, but I didn’t take a change. I wrote in the "Angela" group, and completely unfamiliar people from Pinsk sent boots and a raincoat. Those who could not come, at least support us in this way ”- shares the girl Anya from Mogilev.
The team also includes two experienced industrial climbers from Mogilev. At the headquarters, they first wanted to send them to survey the deep mines that are on the territory of Pushcha. But the necessary equipment was not on site, and the guys did not take their own.
A group of volunteers examines a stack of straw in which the boy could make a couch
"Stop, the pipe is under the road - look", Pavel commands.
Even animal feeders, fallen trees, huts and gatehouses need to be checked. During one of the stops, we found crushed grass under a bush. It turned out that there was a big animal lying here. A little later, they saw a woman's jacket rolled up with a roller. An abandoned booth was found in the neighborhood, but no one has appeared in it for a long time. “There are hundreds of such shelters in the forest. I think the child knows them well.", suggests the commander.
The search party needs to look into every abandoned building, barn or basement
After each failure, the guys sigh, someone jokes: “We’ll find it - the kid should be given to the special forces. The whole country is looking for him, and he hides so skillfully..
They want to take the child into the ring
While we were driving through the forest, the team saw a change in the principles of the search. This morning, along the main roads, there were soldiers with dogs, employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
“They cordoned off the forest around the village. They want to take the guy into the ring. If they manage to organize all the civilians, they might be able to find them.”, - argue in a team.
Soldiers have been on duty on the main roads since morning
A few hours later there were more people in the forest. Volunteers, who a few hours ago stood at the school stadium, now we saw in the forest at a site closer to the New Court. Some are in chains of groups that comb the forest meter by meter, others are on the roadsides, others are checking a large stack of straw in the field. The attendants were wearily trampling, someone was burning a fire, someone managed to pick up mushrooms.
As Alexander Kritsky explained, each search group "closes" the square of the forest assigned to it, people go along a certain azimuth and comb the forest.
Simple volunteers led by experienced coordinators who know how to use navigation, a compass, know cartography, can lead a group of people and make sure that no one from the team is left behind or lost. Everyone works according to a certain algorithm approved by the operational headquarters.
Each team receives such cards, on which the search area is marked
They saw Maxim, but the headquarters does not believe
After combing a new section of the forest, the off-road team stopped in one of the villages. The guys immediately looked into the old basement. Many of the team do not really understand why they were sent to travel on the roads. After all, if the boy hid, then it is unlikely that he will come out when he hears the rumble of cars. But then there was hope.
“Some of the volunteers saw the boy run across the road near the village of Teraspol, four kilometers from the house. A soldier slipped through the cordon", - the guys of one of the cars share the latest news. This means that the child did not go into the very thicket, but keeps to the roads, you can see him by chance.
A little later, the headquarters assured that these were just rumors. But the volunteers in the camp kept saying: “The child was seen both on Saturday and during the week, he was picking mushrooms in a clearing”.
“Hold the muesli, Snickers, you need to eat more sweets. We have coffee and energy drinks with us. We are in the forest, we spend a lot of energy" Anya advises.
The girl was on her feet for the second day, she was very tired, she did not get enough sleep. She had to spend the night in the school building in a sleeping bag. He says that the school sheltered everyone who wanted to, many were taken for the night by local residents.
During the day - people, at night - drones with thermal imagers
In total, more than two thousand people received the task from the headquarters. Most went to the forest in the morning, but during the day new groups formed from the new arrivals.
“Three helicopters from the Ministry of Emergency Situations, gyroplanes were involved. During the day, divers worked, who examined the reservoirs and swampy areas closest to the village. The headquarters works around the clock, but people go out into the forest only during daylight hours., - says the representative of the operational headquarters from the Grodno Department of Internal Affairs Alexander Shastaylo.
Alexander Shastaylo, representative of the operational headquarters from the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Grodno Regional Executive Committee
Drones with thermal imagers fly over the area every night. So far, the search has returned no results.
According to the Angel search and rescue team, Novy Dvor still needs volunteers, as well as help to search for ordinary people who can transfer money to a charity account, transfer the necessary things, water or food.
What the volunteer camp needs can be found on the official Angel page on social networks.
Volunteers and those who are just preparing to come are advised to bring a reflective vest, if possible a whistle and a flashlight, an extra set of clothing, several pairs of socks, rubber boots or other suitable shoes for wet forests and swamps. Gathering - at the stadium of the school. Departure of search groups is scheduled for 9.00, 12.00 and 15.00. It is advised to arrive an hour before departure. There is a field kitchen at the gathering place of the search parties.
Missing in Belovezhskaya Pushcha 10-year-old Maxim Markhaliuk have been looking for 9 days now. The boy went to the forest for mushrooms on the evening of September 16 and still has not returned. In addition to police officers, fighters of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, soldiers, volunteers of search and rescue teams, and the local population joined in the search for the child.
Since the disappearance of Maxim Markhaliuk, a ten-year-old resident of the a.g. The new courtyard of the Svisloch district of the Grodno region - 20 days have already passed. Various versions of what happened are still appearing in the media, but there is still no information about his whereabouts! That is why this case is of interest to our research organization. As practice shows, cases in which there are actually no clues and evidence can only be solved using non-traditional, from the point of view of orthodox science, methods.
First, let's look at the overall picture of the incident.
On Saturday, September 16, 2017, around 7:00 pm, Maxim gets on his bike and heads to the "base". So local boys call a hut in the forest, located about 300 meters from the agricultural town.
The boy's mother, having prepared dinner, begins to call her son home, but does not find him anywhere. Calling his school friends, she finds out where he went. It also turns out that before leaving, Maxim called "for mushrooms" and his comrades, but they refused. This fact automatically excludes the version of a pre-planned escape.
Immediately, the parents run into the forest and find their son's bicycle, neatly standing on the footboard near the hut, but the boy himself is nowhere to be found. Two hours later, the family turns to the police. Neighbors, acquaintances and fellow villagers immediately join the search, later - employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Starting from the next day, volunteers from all over the republic come to the agro-town to participate in search activities, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and even OMON are involved, divers and specialists with dogs are working. From the air, the territory is examined by helicopters with thermal imagers on board and unmanned aircraft. The result is negative!
The main versions: escape or abduction.
In turn, we are starting to monitor the media and social networks for the emergence of information that can help solve this case. An important fact is revealed: according to the director of the local school, when service dogs were working in the forest, one of them took the trail and confidently ran along the dirt road, then went out onto the asphalt, twisted and lost its smell.
It should be understood that if the guy just left this place on a ride, the driver who brought him up would have long ago reported this to law enforcement agencies, but this did not happen. The kidnapping version is also highly controversial. Kidnapping a child is a serious crime that is carefully prepared for. It is difficult to imagine that everything could happen spontaneously, although such a possibility remains.
On October 1, 2017, in the comments to one of the thematic news posted in the group of the Grodno search and rescue squad "TsentrSpas" on the VKontakte social network, a video recording of the session of regressive hypnosis appeared, as a result of which accurate and very plausible information was obtained explaining what happened. Here is the video:
The group's administrators considered the information received "nonsense" and deleted it. We started to analyze it. Particular attention should be paid to the fact that we are not talking about some fantasies of psychics, but about information obtained through the use of methods for connecting a person’s consciousness to the so-called. information field. In the USSR, similar techniques were taught to officers of closed military units to obtain intelligence data, and the term "information field" was used by the military as part of the educational process. Unfortunately, an ordinary person who does not have the appropriate information training knows nothing about this.
Consider the picture that emerges from the analysis of the above video.
Conditional picture of the incident
On the evening of September 16, 2017, Maxim Markhaliuk gets bored and goes on his bike towards the forest. For a reason known only to him, he leaves the vehicle near the hut and continues walking along the highway. It’s already dark outside, and the guy’s clothes may not have reflective elements.
Outside the agricultural town, a dark-colored car is moving at high speed. Behind the wheel is a young guy named Leonid (dark hair, short haircut, large bald patches in front). On the right in the passenger seat is also a young guy named Kirill (bald or trimmed bald, jacket with a hood, presumably brown), apparently lives in Grodno. In the cabin hangs flavoring in the form of a (painted) green apple.
The driver does not notice a little boy walking along the side of the road and makes a collision, in the area of \u200b\u200bwhich there should be traces of blood, and there is a reinforced concrete pillar nearby, a lantern is lit. Very frightened, the guys load Maxim, who is unconscious, into the back seat of the car and head to the hospital.
Having passed the settlement (which one is not known), the guys check the pulse and understand that Maxim is no longer there. Nearby is a field. The body is taken to a forest plantation and sprinkled with earth a little. In addition to the field, there are poles not far from this place (no details). The search engines passed near the body. During the hypnosis session, information slipped that the location of the body was 30 kilometers from the settlement (meaning the agricultural town of Novy Dvor), but there is reason to believe that this information is unreliable.
Please note that the information was not obtained during the session of regressive hypnosis by us, so we cannot be 100% sure of their reliability. At the same time, we have no moral right to ignore the information received, as representatives of search and rescue groups do.
- Search engines need to focus not on finding a living person, but on finding a possible burial of his body. Despite the norms of morality, ignoring this version means playing for the public, and not engaging in a real search.
- The search area can be narrowed by roadside areas (for specialists with dogs) and forests with a depth of no more than 30 meters, thereby expanding the geography of the search. Pay special attention to the sections on the map highlighted in red, and first of all - on the right side of the road.
P.S. In parallel with working out the version of the accident, we started working with individual psychics. An analysis of the information received showed some differences with the above version, but at the same time there were very accurate details that coincided with it. According to psychics, one of whom gave very accurate data on the case of Sonya Chetvertnova, a five-year-old girl from the city of Kalach-on-Don (Russia) who disappeared the day before Maxim and then killed, his underage "comrades" were involved in the disappearance of our guy with parallel cover some of the adults. By the way, one of Maxim's friends is called Cyril, as a passenger in the car, according to regressive hypnosis. Work in this direction continues...
For the first time in my life, I indifferently passed by mushrooms - there are a lot of them in the Svisloch region. But we were not looking for mushrooms: 10-year-old Maxim Markhaliuk left home on September 16, and the boy's whereabouts are still unknown. This search has already been called the largest rescue operation in the country. The Ministry of Emergency Situations, the police, the military, employees of forestries and the National Academy of Sciences, local residents and hundreds of volunteers - in the small agricultural town of Novy Dvor, everyone was united by a big misfortune.
If you see wild animals, stop
I found the contacts of Andrey Vorobyov, a resident of Minsk, in the group of the Angel search and rescue squad: tables for volunteers who are going to Novy Dvor from different parts of the country are posted on social networks. Those who cannot set off on a journey pass food, things, medicines, necessary equipment through fellow travelers. For the rest, drivers report the number of empty seats in the car, the time of departure and the phone number. A conversation with a stranger takes no more than a minute:
Andrey, can I go with you?
Missing Maksim Markhaluk
On Friday morning we are on our way to the Grodno region. All four in this car have the same answer to the question "Why?". Otherwise, we are parents ourselves. Spouses Andrey and Anna left the kids to their grandmother, designer Alexander - with his wife:
- My child is ten years old, like Maxim. Yesterday I solved all work issues, asked for leave. Didn't explain where. Superfluous.
At the entrance to Novy Dvor along the highway, dozens of cars are parked in a long line - there are no passengers in them, everything is in the forest. The newly arrived volunteers first go to the center of the agro-town: here in the Novodvorsky village council a situational headquarters is set up, and tents of the Red Cross stand nearby on the street. Newcomers are registered by Ekaterina Makarenko:
– At 11:00 am, there are 398 people on the list. Svisloch, Volkovysk, Grodno, Pruzhany, Brest, Kobrin, Soligorsk, Minsk, Molodechno, Gomel - it seems that the whole country has gathered here. Those who could not come were given packages with food, warm clothes, batteries, office supplies. The locals are very helpful, preparing hot meals.
An operational meeting is being held in the village council building, after which instructions will be given in which directions to move. In the meantime, volunteers are divided into groups, provided with printouts of maps and orientations, and instructed:
- It is advisable to download the navigator. Communication in the forest can be lost, so stick to your neighbors. No one enters the forest one at a time - only at the command of the leaders. Prompt, but do not swear. If you notice traces, things, stop the line. Stop when you see wild animals.
There are no foreign children
While waiting for the start, the volunteers discuss only one topic: where can Maxim be? Frightened by the animals and went deep into the thicket? Or maybe hiding in a neighboring village? Kidnapped? No matter how terrible the assumptions are, no one loses hope of finding a child.
“If you don’t believe in the best, then you don’t need to go,” says Pavel Blysh, a teacher of pre-conscription training at Grodno secondary school No. 28. - The guys and I are almost local, from Sokolniki, we navigate in the forest, although we are looking for a person for the first time.
“There are no other people's children,” Elvira, an entrepreneur from Vaukavysk, joins the conversation. - Especially when trouble happens nearby, how can you sit quietly at home here? Everyone in our city is worried. Who did not go, constantly looking through the news, waiting for a good outcome.
Katerina Pochebut has three children, the youngest is not even a year old:
- Today my husband has a “daddy's” day (an additional day off for parents with many children. - Approx. “ZN”), we decided to use it for good. They asked their grandmother to look after the children, and they themselves came here. Grief can happen in any family, it is impossible not to support.
Elena Morozova from Brest was on the search three times in a week:
- 119 kilometers from home one way, not so far, I'm driving. We walked through the forests, through the swamps - it was empty.
“Check well at the landfill, it is not far from the place where the bicycle was found,” Vera Denisovna, an old-timer of the village, approaches a group of volunteers. – I used to work as a school teacher, I know that children can hide in such places. I had students who liked to lurk in "shovishcha", in the trees. I don’t see any other places, in the forest everything that was possible has already been bypassed. How long I live, I do not remember so many people here.
In the village council on the table is a list with the telephone numbers of local residents who are ready to provide lodging for the night. Since last Saturday, everyone here has been living with one thought - to find Maxim, Yanina Sikor sighs:
– There are just over 600 residents in Novy Dvor, and everyone who can walk is now in the forest. Teachers, workers, foresters, young people are all there. Maxim's parents and older brother also do not sit at home, they are constantly looking. I don't know what could have happened. Nobody got lost in our village.
Every meter is walked in the forest
If he were here...
Helicopters of the Ministry of Emergency Situations fly in the sky over Belovezhskaya Pushcha. On the ground, every inch of the forest near the agro-town is explored by specialists and volunteers. Our group is sent to the neighboring Studeniki and Boyars: it is necessary to check every yard, attics, abandoned sheds and cellars.
The local grandparents do not need to explain what we forgot here:
- We know, children, we cry every day. We have already searched for him, they came on motorcycles - there is no one.
After several hours of searching the villages, we are convinced that the locals are right. We do not find traces of Maxim in the forest near the New Court. In a chain of 20 people we explore the forest - kilometer after kilometer, until the evening. And nothing. Volunteers go home
- Every meter is covered here. The other day they even found a saw that the foresters had lost many years ago. If Maxim were in Pushcha, they would have found him by now.
And yet there is still hope. The search will continue until the result, assures the head of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Grodno Regional Executive Committee, Police Major General Vadim Sinyavsky:
– We have coordinated the activities of all interested bodies and departments, including volunteers. From the first days, three aircraft of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, drones, more than a thousand people have been involved - searches are ongoing at night. Now all possible versions are being worked out. We hope that the boy is alive and will be found soon.
TO THIS TOPIC
The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case into the disappearance of Maxim Markhaliuk in the Svisloch region. On Tuesday, September 26, ten days have passed since the parents filed an application that the child is missing. All this time, operational-search and search activities were carried out, said the official representative of the Investigative Committee Yulia Goncharova:
- As in all similar situations, the investigators got involved in the work from the first days. I note that all versions are being worked out. However, we have no direct reason to say that the disappearance of the boy is of a criminal nature. We ourselves hope for the best.