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Jealous love-rival murders former girlfriend's new fiance and then shoots himself in the head in front of his horrified ex outside hotel in Polish tourist town

• Mikołaj Bachosz killed Kordian Domagała outside a Polish hotel last night
• Domagała just got engaged to Julia Harmacińska, Bachosz ex-girlfriend, recently

By Ed Wight and Miriam Kuepper

Published: 12:30 EDT, 17 July 2023 | Updated: 07:38 EDT, 19 July 2023

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A jealous lover has gunned down his former girlfriend's new fiancé and then shot himself in the head in front of his horrified ex outside a hotel in Poland .

Mikołaj Bachosz killed Kordian Domagała last night, who had just gotten engaged to Julia Harmacińska - Bachosz ex-girlfriend - two weeks ago.

Disturbing pictures taken outside a city centre hotel in the picturesque tourist district of Poznan, Poland, shows Domagała lying on the floor as his distraught 20-year-old fiancée crouches over him.

She was visibly distressed and started screaming for help when Bachosz fired another shot into her fiancé lying on the ground. Bachosz then shot himself in the head.

A video shows armed police running to the scene after being called by horrified staff and customers at the restaurant outside the city's NH Hotel.

The killer and Julia Harmacińska (pictured) had previously been in a relationship which he reportedly could not accept had ended

Disturbing pictures taken outside a city centre hotel in the picturesque tourist district of Poznan, Poland, shows Domagała lying on the floor as his distraught 20-year-old fiancée stands over him. She was visibly distressed and started screaming for help when Bachosz fired another shot into her fiancé lying on the ground. Bachosz then shot himself in the head

Mikołaj Bachosz (pictured) killed Kordian Domagała outside a Polish hotel last night

One witness said: 'When the shooting began people just fled in terror. He fired a shot at the man and that's when panic broke out.

'He then shot himself in the head.'

Police spokesman Andrzej Borowiak said that the two men aged 30 and 31 had both died in the incident that took place on Sunday evening.

According to reports, Domagała, a blogger and artist who also worked as a local councillor, and Harmacińska had been enjoying a romantic weekend when the killer struck.

Posting on social media, Domagała's stunned friend Kamil Grzebyta said: 'I don't know where to begin because today's news has shocked me so much that it's hard to find the words.

'Some news reports can evoke a lot of emotions in a person, but true sadness is felt only when tragedy affects your loved ones and friends.

'Yesterday, in broad daylight, a young boy was shot dead in front of his fiancée.

'He was probably the most positive and cheerful person I've ever known. He was an artist, a blogger, always smiling and kind.'

He added: 'But just as shocking was the discovery that his murderer was also an acquaintance of mine.

Domagała (left) just got engaged to Julia Harmacińska (right), Bachosz ex-girlfriend, two weeks ago

Posting on social media, Domagała's  (pictured) stunned friend Kamil Grzebyta said: 'I don't know where to begin because today's news has shocked me so much that it's hard to find the words'

According to reports, Domagała (pictured), a blogger and artist who also worked as a local councillor, and Harmacińska had been enjoying a romantic weekend when the killer struck

'He is also a young, intelligent man with prospects that I would never have expected to pick up a gun and fire a shot.

'I can't imagine what must have gone through his mind to commit such a cruel crime, but it is unforgivable.'

Another friend of the victim said: 'This death makes no sense. He was murdered for simply falling in love.'

Bachosz was a legal clerk with a 'bright future' who 'tracked the couple down on social media', according to local reports.

Bachosz and Domagała's fiancée had reportedly been in a relationship which he could not accept had ended.

Police also said: 'The perpetrator had had permission to own a gun for sporting purposes since 2018. The motive: unrequited love. A post mortem is planned for tomorrow.' 

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Borowiak said one of the two men was killed on the spot while the other died in hospital. The men were Poznan residents, aged 30 and 31.

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Two men have died in a shooting in a downtown restaurant in the Polish city of Poznan, local police said Sunday.

A spokesman for Poznan police, Andrzej Borowiak, said the incident took place in the hotel restaurant garden on St. Martin street, in Poznan Old Town, an area popular with tourists.

Borowiak said one of the two men was killed on the spot while the other died in hospital. The men were Poznan residents , aged 30 and 31.

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Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper reported witnesses saying the one man shot the other and then shot himself. The daily did not identify the witnesses.

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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Two men have died in a shooting in a downtown restaurant in the Polish city of Poznan, local police said Sunday.

A spokesman for Poznan police, Andrzej Borowiak, said the incident took place in the hotel restaurant garden on St. Martin street, in Poznan Old Town, an area popular with tourists.

Borowiak said one of the two men was killed on the spot while the other died in hospital. The men were Poznan residents, aged 30 and 31.

He said police are “sure” that one of the men was responsible for the incident and are trying to find out what was the connection between the two.

Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper reported witnesses saying the one man shot the other and then shot himself. The daily did not identify the witnesses.

Police and the prosecutors are investigating.

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A tragic shooting incident at a downtown restaurant in the Polish city of Poznan resulted in the deaths of two men, as reported by the local police. According to the spokesperson for Poznan police, Andrzej Borowiak, the shooting occurred in the hotel restaurant garden on St Martin Street in Poznan Old Town, an area frequented by tourists. 

One of the men was killed instantly, while the other succumbed to his injuries at the hospital. The victims were identified as Mikołaj Bachosz and Kordian Domagała, both residents of Poznan. Notably, Domagała had recently gotten engaged to Julia Harmacińska, who happened to be Bachosz's ex-girlfriend.

Eyewitnesses cited by the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper reported that one of the men shot the other and then turned the weapon on himself. The shocking incident unfolded in front of Harmacińska, who was visibly distressed and cried out for help when Bachosz fired another shot at her fiancé, who was already on the ground. Bachosz then fatally shot himself.

A distressing video captured the moment armed police rushed to the scene after receiving frantic calls from horrified staff and customers at the restaurant, which is located outside the city's NH Hotel.

Authorities, including the police and prosecutors, are actively investigating the incident to understand the circumstances and motive behind the tragic shooting.

Reports suggest that Domagała, who was not only a blogger and artist but also a local councillor, had been enjoying a romantic weekend with Harmacińska when the devastating incident occurred.

Following the heartbreaking event, a friend of Domagała, Kamil Grzebyta, expressed his profound shock and sadness. He described Domagała as an incredibly positive and cheerful person, always wearing a smile and showing kindness to others. Grzebyta further revealed that the tragic news was compounded by the fact that the perpetrator was also known to him.

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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Two men have died in a shooting in a downtown restaurant in the Polish city of Poznan, local police said Sunday.

A spokesman for Poznan police, Andrzej Borowiak, said the incident took place in the hotel restaurant garden on St. Martin street, in Poznan Old Town, an area popular with tourists.

Borowiak said one of the two men was killed on the spot while the other died in hospital. The men were Poznan residents, aged 30 and 31.

He said police are “sure” that one of the men was responsible for the incident and are trying to find out what was the connection between the two.

Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper reported witnesses saying the one man shot the other and then shot himself. The daily did not identify the witnesses.

Police and the prosecutors are investigating.

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Two men killed in gun attack in Polish city of Poznan, say police

WARSAW, POLAND (AP) – Two men have died in a shooting in a downtown restaurant in the Polish city of Poznan, local police said on Sunday.

Poznan police spokesman Andrzej Borowiak said the incident took place in the hotel restaurant garden on St Martin street, in Poznan Old Town, an area popular with tourists.

Borowiak said one of the two men was killed on the spot while the other died in hospital. The men were Poznan residents, aged 30 and 31.

He said police are “sure” that one of the men was responsible for the incident and are trying to find out what was the connection between the two.

Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper reported witnesses saying the one man shot the other and then shot himself. The daily did not identify the witnesses.

Police and the prosecutors are investigating.

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A jealous lover has shot dead his former girlfriend’s new fiancé and then shot himself on the head in front of his horrified ex outside a hotel in Poland.

Mikołaj Bachosz killed Kordian Domagała on Monday night, who had just gotten engaged to Julia Harmacińska, Bachosz’s ex-girlfriend, two weeks ago.

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Disturbing pictures taken outside a city centre hotel in the picturesque tourist district of Poznan, Poland, show Domagała lying on the floor as his distraught 20-year-old fiancée crouches over him.

She was visibly distressed and started screaming for help when Bachosz fired another shot into her fiancé lying on the ground. Bachosz then shot himself in the head.

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According to a witness, “When the shooting began people just fled in terror. He fired a shot at the man and that’s when panic broke out. He then shot himself in the head.”

Police spokesman Andrzej Borowiak said that the two men aged 30 and 31 had both died in the incident that took place on Sunday evening.

According to reports, Domagała, a blogger and artist who also worked as a local councillor and Harmacińska had been enjoying a romantic weekend when the killer struck.

Posting on social media, Domagała’s stunned friend, Kamil Grzebyta, said: “I don’t know where to begin because today’s news has shocked me so much that it’s hard to find the words.

“Some news reports can evoke a lot of emotions in a person, but true sadness is felt only when tragedy affects your loved ones and friends.

“Yesterday, in broad daylight, a young boy was shot dead in front of his fiancée.

“He was probably the most positive and cheerful person I’ve ever known. He was an artist, a blogger, always smiling and kind.”

He further said, “But just as shocking was the discovery that his murderer was also an acquaintance of mine.

“He is also a young, intelligent man with prospects that I would never have expected to pick up a gun and fire a shot.

“I can’t imagine what must have gone through his mind to commit such a cruel crime, but it is unforgivable.”

Another friend of the victim said, “This death makes no sense. He was murdered for simply falling in love.”

Bachosz was a legal clerk with a “bright future” who “tracked the couple down on social media”, according to local reports.

Bachosz and Domagała’s fiancée had reportedly been in a relationship which he could not accept had ended.

Police also said, “The perpetrator had had permission to own a gun for sporting purposes since 2018. The motive: unrequited love. A post-mortem is planned for tomorrow.”

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Officers arrived at the two shooting scenes in Lewiston last October not knowing if the gunman was still there, and with living and dead victims on the floors. One officer described desperate survivors screaming for help as he searched for the shooter.

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Card’s body was found two days after the shooting in the back of a tractor-trailer on his former employer’s property in nearby Lisbon. An autopsy concluded he died by suicide.

The documents that were released Friday provided officers’ firsthand accounts of what they saw along with additional details of the massive search for Card and the investigation.

At the peak, the law enforcement presence was immense with 16 SWAT team and officers from 14 different agencies, along with eight helicopters and additional airplanes, and an underwater recovery team, wrote State Police Lt. Tyler Stevenson.

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The documents underscored the chaos as police officers poured into the region. In addition to the two crime scenes, police responded to unfounded reports of a gunman in a field near the shooting scene, at another restaurant and at a massive Walmart distribution center.

“I asked who was in charge and got no answer,” wrote Androscoggin County Deputy Jason Chaloux, describing the scene outside the bar.

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WALTON COUNTY, Fla. ( WVUE /Gray News) - A woman and a teenager were injured in back-to-back shark attacks near a popular tourist beach in Florida, according to multiple reports.

Both incidents were near 30A, which is a popular strip of beaches.

The first incident was reported around 1 p.m. near Watersound Way, which is between Panama City Beach and Miramar Beach.

Deputies said the woman was injured and taken to a hospital, WVUE reported.

Her identity and condition have not been released.

A witness posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the attack allegedly happened while he and his children were body surfing in the Gulf of Mexico.

“Lots of blood in the water,” the witness described. “It’s not good.”

The second incident was reported around 3:25 p.m. near Shoreline Drive. Officials say there were multiple reports that a teenager was injured.

The beach was closed to the public in Walton County while the investigations continued.

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Manhunt after gunman kills two in shooting at Swiss tourist town

Police have launched a manhunt after a shooter killed two people and injured a third after opening fire in a city in Switzerland.

The gunman fired shots at several people in two locations in Sion, in Switzerland’s southwestern canton of Valais , close to the borders with France and Italy, before before 8am on Monday.

Officers said they were still working to establish a motive for the shootings but that the suspect appeared to have known his victims.

Police said they had deployed officers to find the suspected shooter, and later issued an appeal for people to come forward with any information on a 36-year-old believed to be the gunman.

They warned people that "this person is dangerous" and they shouldn’t approach him. Authorities said later on Monday that a suspect had been arrested.

Regional newspaper Le Nouvelliste , which didn’t name sources, reported that shots were fired at a paint company’s premises and at another location.

The paper said that Sion was surrounded by police but that the local force did not say how many officers were involved in the search.

Local prosecutors opened a murder investigation.

Switzerland, a country of around 9 million, has a high rate of gun ownership, although mass shootings are rare, unlike in the US, where firearm ownership is also high.

The central European country last had a mass shooting in 2001, when a man stormed the local parliament in Zug and opened fire, killing 14 people before turning the gun on himself.

Small Arms Survey, a Swiss -based organisation that monitors global trends in armed violence, estimates the number of firearms in civilian possession at 2.3 million.

Sion, which has a population of around 30,000, is the capital of the canton of Valais and is known for its cathedral and the towers of Tourbillion and Valeria castles.

The city has several ski resorts and is popular with tourists interested in winter sports.

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Polish soldier stabbed at the Belarus border dies of his injuries as pressure from migrants rises

Poland’s military says a soldier who was stabbed last month from behind a barrier at the border with Belarus has died

WARSAW, Poland -- A Polish soldier who was stabbed last month at the eastern border with Belarus has died, Poland's military said Thursday. It said earlier the soldier was stabbed in the chest by a migrant who reached through the bars of the border barrier.

The soldier was hospitalized in serious condition in the town of Hajnowka. On Thursday he was taken to a military hospital in Warsaw but died there in the afternoon, the military said.

“A young soldier, Mateusz, gave his life in the defense of Poland's border," Prime Minister Donald Tusk wrote on the social platform X.

“The motherland and his compatriots will never forget about this sacrifice. I extend words of deepest sympathy to his family,” Tusk wrote.

The Polish foreign ministry on Thursday summoned the Belarusian charge d’affaires, demanding that Minsk authorities identify and hand over the soldier’s “murderer,” Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski said.

The situation at the European Union’s eastern border is increasingly tense under pressure from thousands of people from the Middle East, Asia and Africa, trying to force their way through a metal barrier that Poland put up in 2022 to seal the frontier. Latest figures from the Polish Border Guard say there have been some 17,000 attempts at illegally crossing the border this year.

Poland and the EU say many of the migrants are organized and aided by Russia and its ally Belarus to destabilize Europe. According to Polish officials, about 90% of the migrants at Poland's border have Russian visas, which points to Russia's role.

The pressure intensified this spring, ahead of key elections to the European Parliament . In-person voting began on Thursday, in the Netherlands, with the other 26 EU member states due to go to the polls by June 9.

“For the first time we are dealing with a situation when a neighboring country is supporting migrants in an evident way and these poor people are tools of that policy,” a spokesman for Poland's Foreign Ministry told The Associated Press.

The border is patrolled by about 6,000 Polish army troops, some 2,200 border guards and a few hundred police. Recently, some other officers also required hospital treatment for knife and other wounds inflicted from behind the barrier.

Following the stabbing attack, the government vowed to further step up security at the border and areas of buffer zones, where only the guards can go, to facilitate their task.

Poland has been taking steps to warn and dissuade potential migrants from trying to go via Poland, through information and posters disseminated in North African, Middle East countries and Turkey. The efforts have been successful in reducing the flow, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Pawel Wronski.

But recently more migrants have been arriving from Central African countries like Somalia, Eritrea or Yemen, where Western countries have limited possibilities of reaching people with information about the non-passable border, Wronski said.

Government officials on Thursday demanded explanations after it emerged that three soldiers were handcuffed and detained by Polish military police in March for having fired warning shots when faced with an advancing group of migrants on the border with Belarus.

The soldiers had allegedly fired warning shots first into the air and then into the ground as they tried to stop an advancing migrant group on Polish territory. No one was injured.

Government officials say the detention was an excessive measure.

“This is a shocking case, considering the fact that our soldiers were recently repeatedly attacked by aggressors from the Belarus side,” said President Andrzej Duda, who is the supreme commander of Poland's armed forces.

Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said the military police overreacted and demanded clarification from them and from the prosecutors who are investigating. Prosecutors said Thursday footage from the shooting did not show the soldiers being in a life-threatening situation.

“The soldiers at the border are carrying out a mission for the Polish state," Kosiniak-Kamysz told a news conference Thursday.

“We are always on the side of the soldiers ... of those who carry out their tasks at the border,” he said, adding that soldiers, in charge of protecting the border since 2022, have used weapons in emergency situations some 700 times.

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Polish soldier stabbed at the Belarus border dies of his injuries as pressure from migrants rises

Polish troops guard the metal barrier border with Belarus, in Bialowieza Forest, on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. Poland says neighboring Belarus and its main supporter Russia are behind a surging push by migrants in Belarus toward the European Union. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

A Polish soldier patrols the metal barrier border with Belarus, in Bialowieza Forest, on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. Poland says neighboring Belarus and its main supporter Russia are behind a surging push by migrants in Belarus toward the European Union. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

A view of migrants behind the metal barrier border that Poland has erected along the border with Belarus, in Bialowieza Forest, on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. Poland says neighboring Belarus and its main supporter Russia are behind a surging push by migrants in Belarus toward the European Union. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

FILE - Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk, centre, Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, centre left, and Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak,, visit visit troops who patrol Poland’s border with Belarus, in Dubicze Cerkiewna, eastern Poland on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. Poland says neighboring Belarus and its main supporter Russia are behind a surging push by migrants in Belarus toward the European Union. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish soldier who was stabbed last month at the eastern border with Belarus has died, Poland’s military said Thursday. It said earlier the soldier was stabbed in the chest by a migrant who reached through the bars of the border barrier.

The soldier was hospitalized in serious condition in the town of Hajnowka. On Thursday he was taken to a military hospital in Warsaw but died there in the afternoon, the military said.

“A young soldier, Mateusz, gave his life in the defense of Poland’s border,” Prime Minister Donald Tusk wrote on the social platform X.

“The motherland and his compatriots will never forget about this sacrifice. I extend words of deepest sympathy to his family,” Tusk wrote.

The Polish foreign ministry on Thursday summoned the Belarusian charge d’affaires, demanding that Minsk authorities identify and hand over the soldier’s “murderer,” Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski said.

The situation at the European Union’s eastern border is increasingly tense under pressure from thousands of people from the Middle East, Asia and Africa, trying to force their way through a metal barrier that Poland put up in 2022 to seal the frontier. Latest figures from the Polish Border Guard say there have been some 17,000 attempts at illegally crossing the border this year.

Poland and the EU say many of the migrants are organized and aided by Russia and its ally Belarus to destabilize Europe. According to Polish officials, about 90% of the migrants at Poland’s border have Russian visas, which points to Russia’s role.

The pressure intensified this spring, ahead of key elections to the European Parliament . In-person voting began on Thursday, in the Netherlands, with the other 26 EU member states due to go to the polls by June 9.

“For the first time we are dealing with a situation when a neighboring country is supporting migrants in an evident way and these poor people are tools of that policy,” a spokesman for Poland’s Foreign Ministry told The Associated Press.

The border is patrolled by about 6,000 Polish army troops, some 2,200 border guards and a few hundred police. Recently, some other officers also required hospital treatment for knife and other wounds inflicted from behind the barrier.

Following the stabbing attack, the government vowed to further step up security at the border and areas of buffer zones, where only the guards can go, to facilitate their task.

Poland has been taking steps to warn and dissuade potential migrants from trying to go via Poland, through information and posters disseminated in North African, Middle East countries and Turkey. The efforts have been successful in reducing the flow, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Pawel Wronski.

But recently more migrants have been arriving from Central African countries like Somalia, Eritrea or Yemen, where Western countries have limited possibilities of reaching people with information about the non-passable border, Wronski said.

Government officials on Thursday demanded explanations after it emerged that three soldiers were handcuffed and detained by Polish military police in March for having fired warning shots when faced with an advancing group of migrants on the border with Belarus.

The soldiers had allegedly fired warning shots first into the air and then into the ground as they tried to stop an advancing migrant group on Polish territory. No one was injured.

Government officials say the detention was an excessive measure.

“This is a shocking case, considering the fact that our soldiers were recently repeatedly attacked by aggressors from the Belarus side,” said President Andrzej Duda, who is the supreme commander of Poland’s armed forces.

Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said the military police overreacted and demanded clarification from them and from the prosecutors who are investigating. Prosecutors said Thursday footage from the shooting did not show the soldiers being in a life-threatening situation.

“The soldiers at the border are carrying out a mission for the Polish state,” Kosiniak-Kamysz told a news conference Thursday.

“We are always on the side of the soldiers ... of those who carry out their tasks at the border,” he said, adding that soldiers, in charge of protecting the border since 2022, have used weapons in emergency situations some 700 times.

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Environmental activists are frustrated by how authorities handled a diesel spill which poured into two Arctic rivers in late May.

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The drive from Norilsk airport to the city takes you past mile after mile of crumbling, Soviet-era factories.

It looks like an endless, rusting scrapyard - a jumble of pipes, industrial junk and frost-bitten brickwork. If you were looking for an industrial apocalypse film setting, this would be your place - but you're unlikely to get the permissions.

Norilsk was built in Stalin's times by gulag prisoners. This gritty industrial city is a testament to their endurance both of the cruelty of Stalin's regime and of the harsh polar climate. There were no thoughts then on how to build to protect the environment, just to survive it.

Vasily Ryabinin doesn't think much has changed, at least in ecological terms. He used to work for the local branch of the federal environmental watchdog, Rosprirodnadzor, but quit in June after exposing what he says was a failure to investigate properly the environmental impact of the gigantic diesel spill which poured into two Arctic rivers in late May.

At 21,000 tonnes, it was the largest industrial spill in the polar Arctic .

Despite the Kremlin declaring a federal emergency and sending a host of different agencies to participate in the clean-up, just last week Mr Ryabinin and activists from Greenpeace Russia found another area where technical water used in industrial processes was being pumped directly into the tundra from a nearby tailing pond. Russia's investigative committee has promised to investigate.

"The ecological situation here is so bad," Mr Ryabinin says.

"The latest constructions such as the tailing pond at the Talnack ore-processing plant were built exclusively by Nornickel chief executive Vladimir Potanin's team and supposedly in accordance with ecological standards, but on satellite images you can see that all the lakes in the vicinity have unnatural colours and obviously something has got into them."

Mining company Nornickel would disagree. It has admitted flagrant violations at the tailing pond and suspended staff it deems responsible at both the Talnack plant and at Norilsk Heat and Power plant no 3 where the diesel spill originated from.

On Thursday it appointed Andrey Bougrov, from its senior management board, to the newly-created role of senior vice president for environmental protection. It has a clear environmental strategy, provides regular updates on the status of the spill, and its Twitter feed is filled with climate-related alerts.

But what investors read is very different to the picture on the ground.

Norilsk used to be a closed city - one of dozens across the Soviet Union shut off to protect industrial secrets. Foreigners need special permissions approved by the Federal Security Service (FSB) to enter the region. It would take an invitation from Nornickel to make that happen and, for the past month since the spill, that has not been forthcoming.

Unlike in Soviet times, Russian citizens are now free to come and go. That's why our Sky News Moscow team were able to fly in and travel around the city, even if getting to the spill site was blocked. What they were able to film provides a snapshot of the immense challenge Russia faces in upgrading its Soviet-era industrial infrastructure, particularly at a time when climate change is melting the permafrost on which much of it was built.

Just downwind from one of the rusting factories on the city outskirts is a huge expanse of dead land. The skeletal remains of trees stand forlorn against the howling Arctic winds. Sulphur dioxide poisoning has snuffed the life out of all that lived here. Norilsk is the world's worst emitter of sulphur dioxide by a substantial margin.

"For 80km south of here everything is dead," Mr Ryabinin says, "and for at least 10km in that direction too. Everything here depends on the wind."

Immediately after the spill, Mr Ryabinin filmed and took samples from the Daldykan river just a few kilometres from the fuel tank which had leaked. By that point the river was a churning mix of diesel and red sludge dredged up from the riverbed by the force of the leak. Norilsk's rivers have turned red before and the chemical residues have sunk to the bottom, killing all life there. Nothing has lived in those rivers for decades.

In his capacity as deputy head of the local environmental watchdog, Mr Ryabinin says he insisted that he be allowed to fly further north to check the levels of contamination in Lake Pyasino and beyond.

Nornickel at the time claimed the lake was untouched by the spill. Mr Ryabinin says his boss encouraged him to let things be.

"I can't be sure I would have found anything, but this sort of confrontation - making sure I didn't go there with a camera, let alone with bottles for taking samples, it was all very clear to me. It was the final straw."

Rosprirodnadzor refused to comment to Sky News on Mr Ryabinin's allegations or suggestions that the agency was working hand in hand with Nornickel.

Georgy Kavanosyan is an environmental blogger with a healthy 37,000 following on YouTube. Shortly after the spill, he set out for Lake Pyasino and to the Pyasina River beyond to see how far the diesel had spread.

"We set out at night so that the Norilsk Nickel security wouldn't detect us. I say at night, but they've got polar nights there now, north of the Arctic Circle. So it's still light but it's quieter and we managed to go past all the cordons."

He is one of the few to have provided evidence that the diesel has in fact travelled far beyond where the company admits. Not just the 1,200km (745m) length of Lake Pyasino but into the river beyond.

He says his measurements indicated a volume of hydrocarbons dissolved in the water of between two and three times normal levels. He thinks after he published his findings on YouTube, the authorities' vigilance increased.

Greenpeace Russia have spent the last two weeks trying to obtain samples from Lake Pyasino and the surrounding area. They have faced difficulties getting around and flying their samples out for independent analysis.

They are now waiting for results from a laboratory in St Petersburg but say the samples remain valid technically for just four days after collection and that they weren't able to make that deadline due to the authorities' actively obstructing their work.

Elena Sakirko from Greenpeace Russia specialises in oil spills and says this has happened to her before. This time, a police helicopter flew to the hunter's hut where they were staying and confiscated the fuel for the boat they were using. Then a deputy for the Moscow city parliament tasked with bringing the samples back from Norilsk was forced to go back empty-handed.

"We were told at the airport we needed permission from the security department of Nornickel," Ms Sakirko says. "We asked them to show us some law or statement to prove that this was legal or what the basis for this was, but they haven't showed us anything and we still don't understand it."

Nornickel announced this week that the critical stage of the diesel spill is over. The company is now finalising dates for a press tour for foreign media and for other international environmentalists.

Mr Ryabinin thinks this should have happened weeks ago.

"If we don't let scientists come to the Arctic region to evaluate the impact of the accident, then in the future if anything similar happens, we won't know what to do."

A spokesperson for Nornickel said the company "is actively cooperating with the scientific community and will meticulously assess both the causes and effects of the accident."

Nornickel considers permafrost thawing to be the primary cause of the accident, but is waiting for the end of investigation before making a final statement, the spokesperson said.

They added that the company "accepts full responsibility for the incidents on its sites these past two months and holds itself accountable for any infrastructural deficits or poor decisions by personnel.

"The imperative is to do everything to clean up our sites, instil a stronger culture of transparency and safety in our workforce, and ensure that such situations do not occur in the future."