I imagine it would be disconcerting to visit the grave of your brother and find instead an entire cemetery gone, the gravestones gone, and the land bulldozed. Local officials denied that the cemetery was destroyed, however. They claim it had already fallen into disrepair and that a new beautification project was started to clean the area up and make it worthy of their sacrifice, or some such rationale for levelling the site.
Whatever the truth, the sister’s video went viral on social media this week, forcing the Russians to address the situation.
Source: Sakha Press (Russia)
Recently, a message appeared on social networks* that the graves of Yakuts killed in the North Military District were allegedly destroyed at the Magan Cemetery in Yakutsk. “We came to visit my brother’s grave and did not find it, everything there was razed to the ground,” said the message from a Yakut woman whose relative is buried there.
To confirm these words, the woman posted a video in which a grader was leveling the ground, according to her, at the burial site.
However, it turned out that this information is not true. This is reported by the relatives of the SVO participants buried in the cemetery:
