In Russian Federation, an engineer who had a hand in the missile that killed his grandmother in Kharkiv shot himself to death

Anton Gorobets, chief system designer of the Almaz Antey Air Defence Concern, was found shot dead in Russia. He left a suicide note where he wrote that he "could not live with it".

In particular, he wrote that he was involved in the manufacture of the missile that destroyed a residential multi-storey building in Kharkiv on 23 January and killed his grandmother.

A few days ago, a missile, which I had a hand in, flew into Kharkiv, into the house where my grandmother on my mother's side lived, she died. I couldn't live with it," he wrote.

He called "what is happening now" a horror and a nightmare.

I refuse to participate in it, but you can't bring my grandmother back either," he wrote.

Gorobets also apologised and added that he "can't go on like this".

The suicide of an employee of a Russian military enterprise was reported by Telegram channels on 26 January. The network published photos of the corpse, as well as notes left by Gorobets.

As of the morning of 28 January, there were no official comments from the Russian authorities or representatives of Almaz Antey. The news was also ignored by major propaganda media.

According to Russian Telegram channels, the investigative committee is considering the murder version.

Recall, the Russians hit Kharkiv around four in the morning on 23 January. About 07:00 the head of the investigative Department of the police Sergei Bolvinov said that there were four hits on the suburbs of Kharkiv. As a consequence, a gas pipeline was damaged, a sanatorium school was destroyed, and women and children were injured.

Already after seven in the morning a series of explosions took place in Kharkiv, there were at least six of them. Head of the OVA Sinegubov said that during the repeated firing of rockets the Russians hit a house in the Kiev district and the entranceway there was destroyed.

In the afternoon of 24 January it became known that the total number of dead as a result of Russian strikes on 23 January increased to 10: the bodies of a man and a woman were found under the rubble on Akademika Proskura Street. Along with them were two dead dogs. Later, a 61-year-old woman, who was injured during the missile strikes on Kharkiv on 23 January, died in hospital at night, the press service of the regional prosecutor's office reported on the morning of 26 January. The death toll from the Russian shelling has risen to 11.