Important stories found children from Mariupol who were taken to the stage at a rally in Luzhniki The mother of a girl who thanked the Russian military for saving her died during shelling Other children are now being taken to propaganda shows

On February 22, at a rally-concert in Luzhniki, organized in support of the war, a volunteer from Chelyabinsk Yuri Gagarin spoke with the call sign "Angel" With him, children from Mariupol came on stage, whom this military man, as the rally leaders said, “saved”.

The journalists of the Important Stories publication found out the names of the six children, confirming that they were indeed from Mariupol Journalists learned details about the family of 15-year-old Anya Naumenko, who at a rally on February 22 thanked Gagarin for rescuing him from Mariupol.

“Thanks to Uncle Yura for saving me, my sister and hundreds of thousands of children from Mariupol,” she said Her sister Karolina gained media attention by covering her ears from loud noises on stage.

As Important Stories found out, in addition to girls, the Naumenko family also has a younger son, Daniel Where he is is unknown.

Familiar families said that their mother, Olga Naumenko, “led an asocial lifestyle,” and her children were regularly taken away from her, but then returned Anya, according to Important Stories, spent some time in an orphanage.

Her photographs were found on the social networks of the educators of the institution In 2015, the mother took the girl home.

After the start of the war, the family hid from shelling in the Left Bank Culture Center and in the building of the local administration “The girl Anya, along with the men under the bombings, ran to the ATB [shop] for groceries.

Everyone looked after the children, except for the mother, ”said a resident of Mariupol, who was with them in the basement As the journalists found out, Olga Naumenko died during shelling in early April.

According to eyewitnesses, she "ran out for cigarettes" and was killed by shrapnel near the 4th hospital She was also buried there.

At some point everyone who was in the shelter, “without asking, they evacuated,” said one of the residents of Mariupol, who knew the Naumenko family According to her, Anya, Carolina and Daniil stayed with Olga Naumenko's common-law husband, Artur.

Journalists found messages in Telegram channels that he and his children went to the village of Bezymennoye in the Donetsk region Where he is now, his relatives do not know.

In one of the social networks, Anya Naumenko indicates that she lives in the village of Nikitskoye near Moscow Two teenagers from Mariupol told "Important stories" that Anya was studying with them in the city, and left only "for a week.

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Another child from the rally, who was identified by journalists, is Kostya Vashchishin He stood on the stage at Luzhniki in a black cap, to the left of Gagarin.

According to Important Stories, the boy's parents, Igor and Kristina, survived and are now in Mariupol After a full-scale Russian invasion, the Vashchishins hid from shelling in the same places as the Naumenko family.

Vashchishin's acquaintances claim that Kostya's parents condemned the war Now, according to the interlocutors of Important Stories, Kristina, a former saleswoman in a household goods store, works in the city administration.

Journalists also found a September selfie of Igor with his son, where Kostya has a Russian tricolor tied on the strap of his bag In the shelter, Igor and Kristina said that they would like to leave the city for a while and wait out the war, but they were not ready to leave for good.

According to the family's neighbor Mikhail, who spent a month in a shelter with the Vashchishins during the siege of Mariupol, the family remained in the city Recognizing Kostya in a video from Luzhniki, he suggested that the Vashchishins had been invited to Moscow on a "short-term business trip.

" "Important Stories" found that at least three more children from the rally were taken to propaganda shows with "Uncle Yura" along with their mothers So, the girl in the pink jacket who hugged Gagarin at the Luzhniki Stadium is six-year-old Sasha, the daughter of 29-year-old Natalya Sitnik from the village of Yalta near Mariupol.

On October 17, in the Andrey Malakhov show, the military man hugs and holds Sasha's hand, and then puts her on his lap In the same issue, journalists noticed Sasha's mother and four more children of the woman.

The Malakhov show claims that Natalia with five children spent 40 days in the basement of the Mariupol hospital "Important stories" found confirmation that the family was in occupied Mariupol.

Sasha's photos were published in a report by the pro-russian public movement "Donetsk Republic" Natalya herself said on the show that the “Azovites” allegedly considered those hiding in the hospital “meat”.

The family of Mariupol resident Natalia Koval also starred in Malakhov's show Two of her children were brought onto the stage at Luzhniki - a son (in a blue jacket) and a daughter (with pigtails in a white hat).

In a report shown on Malakhov's show, Koval tells how he and his children hid from shelling in the basement of their private house Sasha's photos were published in a report by the pro-russian public movement "Donetsk Republic".

Natalya herself said on the show that the “Azovites” allegedly considered those hiding in the hospital “meat” The family of Mariupol resident Natalia Koval also starred in Malakhov's show.

Two of her children were brought onto the stage at Luzhniki - a son (in a blue jacket) and a daughter (with pigtails in a white hat) In a report shown on Malakhov's show, Koval tells how he and his children hid from shelling in the basement of their private house.

Sasha's photos were published in a report by the pro-russian public movement "Donetsk Republic" Natalya herself said on the show that the “Azovites” allegedly considered those hiding in the hospital “meat”.

The family of Mariupol resident Natalia Koval also starred in Malakhov's show Two of her children were brought onto the stage at Luzhniki - a son (in a blue jacket) and a daughter (with pigtails in a white hat).

In a report shown on Malakhov's show, Koval tells how he and his children hid from shelling in the basement of their private house .