Combatant seen in graphic 12-second clip circulated on Telegram had initially been wrongly named Tymofiy Shadura
and, within Ukraine, a search for the identity of a man hailed as a national hero and symbol of resistance.
The Ukrainian military on Tuesday initially named the soldier as Tymofiy Shadura of the 30th Separate Mechanized Brigade but cautioned a final confirmation could not be made until the body had been recovered from currently Russian-controlled territory. According to the 30th Separate Mechanized Brigade, he went missing on 3 February near Bakhmut, where fierce trench warfare had raged for seven months, with thousands killed.
Some Ukrainian media and bloggers, however, instead claimed the murdered man was Oleksandr Igorevich Matsievskyi, 42, who was also deployed to Bakhmut in November. “We have received the conclusion of a forensic photo examination, which confirmed that the soldier in the video is Oleksandr Matsievskyi,” the Security Service of Ukraine wrote on Twitter on Sunday. “This is the result of a series of investigative actions, which included communication with relatives and relatives of the deceased, as well as the processing of photos and video materials.
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