"A criminal case has been opened on the grounds of a crime under Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Murder of two or more minors")", - the press service of the department reported (quoted by TASS).The identity of the dead children and their mother has been established.

The accused is a citizen born in 1985, who was on maternity leave at the time of the crime. A group of police criminal investigation operatives is working at the scene. A survey of family acquaintances, neighbors and the owner of the apartment is being conducted.The reasons for living in a family in a rented apartment are being established.

Investigators are finding out whether the family is registered, as told by the press secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Sverdlovsk region Valery Gorelykh. The regional prosecutor Boris Krylov went to the scene of the tragedy. The investigation of the criminal case has been taken over by the Prosecutor's Office. Igor Morokov, the Commissioner for Children's Rights in the Sverdlovsk Region, joined in clarifying the circumstances of the incident."Tomorrow morning, together with the commission on juvenile affairs, with everyone who was somehow in contact with this family, we will clarify whether there were any markers that said that this could happen.

Now the main thing is the investigation", - Morokov said in an interview with TASS. A source told RIA Novosti about the appointment of a psychological and psychiatric examination for the suspect.

Such examinations are routinely assigned in the investigation of murder cases. According to the Telegram channel Shot, before the crime, the citizen wrote a note to her husband.

In the letter, she accuses her husband of being "possessed by Satan", her sons were struck by "a demon, fornication and pride", and her 5-month-old daughter was "bitten by a Serpent tempter". After the murder of the children, the Yekaterinburg woman notified all relatives about the beginning of the Apocalypse, assuring that her children were already in paradise. According to the source, her relatives do not rule out that the clouding of reason was caused by the harsh nature of her husband, who, according to them, was always angry when she communicated with loved ones. According to the local newspaper "E1.RU", referring to the words of one of the subscribers, law enforcement officers first took a woman out of the apartment in handcuffs, after which they also took out a man. The publication notes that the neighbors position the family "super-positively". The agency also received another note in which the accused confessed to the murder of the children, explaining that she was seriously ill and that "there is no one to take them into care".

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