Sent to die: Murmansk teen becomes one of the youngest to be killed in Ukraine war
Maksim Nasilovsky was killed one month and ten days after he turned 18. He was recruited into the army from prison where he served a 5-year sentence for the murder of his mother, according to news outlet Mediazona.
The teenager was killed on the battlefield on November 3, but his death has not been made public by regional authorities in Murmansk. Neither have any media in the Murmansk region reported about the fate of the young man.
It was the Ukrainian project “I Want to Find” that first listed Maksim as killed.
Maksim Nasilovsky was born on October 20, 2006, according to a leaked database searched by Mediazona. By that, he became one of the youngest Russian soldiers killed since the full-scale invasion in February 2022.
The database noted that Nasilovsky was sent to the 128th Motorised Rifle Brigade in Luga, Leningrad region, six days after turning 18.
At the time, Maksim Nasilovsky was locked up in Pretrial Detention Center No. 1 in Murmansk where he was held since stabbing his mother to death.
According to a news announcement by the Investigative Department for the Murmansk region in October 2024, 17-year old Maksim killed his mother in June the same year. He was sentenced to 5,5 years in prison.
Given the short time from he was sent from the prison in Murmansk until he was killed in Ukraine, the young man could hardly have gotten minimal basic military training before being sent to the front.
He left Murmansk on October 26 and was reported killed less than two weeks later.
A special Mediazona project has recorded 135,100 names of confirmed Russian military deaths. The war’s true death toll is much higher.
