Documents found on the coast of Odesa region may belong to a Russian liaison officer

Employees of the Tuzly Estuaries National Park found a backpack on the coast with a laptop and documents of a citizen of the Russian Federation.

As Intent managed to find out, Maxim Kuznetsov, whose documents were in the backpack, opened a business in his hometown of Domodedovo in June 2022, but closed it in May 2024.

He was engaged in electrical work, so he could have signed a contract with the Russian engineering troops and worked on arranging positions, laying communication lines, working with generators and power grids at training grounds. Or in the communications troops, where he would lay cables and maintain equipment.

According to Ivan Rusev, an employee of the Tuzly Estuaries National Nature Park, at first he did not touch or open the backpack because the head of the national park had forbidden it, but later he decided to.

"It turned out to be a backpack of a Russian citizen. The backpack contained a laptop with various small things. And among all the stuff was a Russian passport. We still have no answer as to where this backpack came from and how long it had been drifting in the sea," the ecologist wrote.

Meanwhile, the concrete defenses - tetrapods- that fortified the coast in the Tuzly Estuaries National Nature Park in Odesa Oblast are almost underwater. In the winter of 2024, the question of these defenses was already raised. Then the Odesa Regional Military Administration responded to the posts of journalists and Ivan Rusev, an employee of the Tuzly Estuaries National Nature Park, and ordered the tetrapods that had been installed on the coast to be dug out of the sand and pulled a little further away. In addition, the Odesa Regional Military Administration decided to consult with scientists to build fortifications. To this end, the Department of Capital Construction of the Odesa Regional State Administration signed a memorandum with the Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise to ensure transparency and legality in the implementation of fortification projects in the region.

Кирило Бойко