Given that there are some reservations (and rightly so) about what I posted yesterday about CrazyCat's death, and to dispel any suspicion surrounding his disappearance, perhaps it would be better to mention the source from which I learned the sad news.
Yesterday, I spoke with a former colleague of CrazyCat's, and the first thing he told me was about our colleague's disappearance. He has not been heard from since last fall, the exact date is unknown, and he has been searched for persistently. However, there has been no response to repeated calls to find him.
Concerned about CrazyCat's fate, the International Red Cross was eventually called in. Through them, it was discovered that one of the names on the list of the deceased was Evgeniy Plekhov, aka CrazyCat. But because there were several people with similar names on the list they received, there is still hope that a mistake was made.
That is where we can still hope that
@CrazyCat will reappear among us one day. However, given the conditions of war in Ukraine and the martial law imposed in 2022, the information that people there and abroad are receiving must be taken with a grain of salt as long as the names of the missing are not officially announced.
So everything we know about our colleague comes from the International Red Cross. How credible this source is is up to each individual to decide. However, as life experience in many extreme situations has shown us, people are capable of believing even the unbelievable, for better or for worse.
And as the saying goes, hope is the last thing to disappear!
So
let's hope that there was a mistake on the Red Cross list.