From February 24, 2022, when Russia started a full-scale war in Ukraine, about 20 Belarusian volunteers who defended the territorial integrity of Ukraine were killed.

The dead fought in the Kalinovsky regiment, the "Terror" battalion, the "Pagonia" unit, as well as in separate units of the Ukrainian army.

On January 26, the Belarusian volunteer corps reported the death of Belarusian

while performing a combat mission .

Svoboda remembers the Belarusian volunteers who died since the beginning of the full-scale war of Russia against Ukraine.

Ilya "Litvin" Khrenov

27 years old

Ilya "Litvin" Khrenov

The first Belarusian who died in Ukraine during the full-scale war.

Ilya fought from the age of 19, when he left Belarus with his comrades to join the "Azov" battalion.

Then he was an instructor at "Azov".

In civilian life, he was doing well, working as a junior at an IT company dealing with artificial intelligence and housing market data.

He married a Ukrainian girl.

Lived in Bravary near Kiev.

Ilya is a Mianchuk, grew up in Loshytsa in a large family.

Studied at the Automechanic College, worked for a short time at MAZ.

He was a fan of "Dynamo" Minsk.

"Litvin" died on March 3 in battles with the Russian occupiers near Bucha.

It happened at the Villa San-Marino hotel, where a group of Ukrainian and Belarusian volunteers repelled an attack by Russian military equipment.

Another Belarusian, Aleksei "Psycholyag" Nazarov, had his leg amputated as a result of that fight.

The body of "Litvina" could not be taken away for a month due to the occupation of part of the Kyiv region.

After the solemn farewell, the body was cremated.

Now the ashes are with the Belarusian's wife, after the war, Ilya's parents want to take them away to bury them next to their relatives.

Alyaksei "Tur" Skobl

31 years old

Alyaksei "Tur" Skobl

The only Belarusian who received the title of Hero of Ukraine posthumously.

Fought since 2015.

Aleksey is a Myanchuk.

He also studied at the Auto Mechanic College, worked as a mechanic.

Then he entered Horaden State University by correspondence, but he did not have time to graduate, because he decided to go to Ukraine.

He started his military career as a paramedic, and ended it already in the unit of special operations forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

He had Ukrainian citizenship.

"Tur" died on March 13 near Kiev.

He was badly wounded in battle.

Belarus asked him not to evacuate, because he believed that he had no chance of survival, and instead left.

Alyaksei himself covered the withdrawal by shooting.

The Belarusian soldier was also cremated, and his wife gave his ashes to his parents so that they could bury their son in Belarus.

Zmytser "Terror" Apanasovich

32 years old

Zmytser "Terror" Apanasovich

The first loss of the Belarusian formation in Ukraine was the battalion named after Kastus Kalinowski.

Zmytser died on March 24 during the battles for Irpen, in the Kyiv region.

In that operation, the Belarusians fought for six days without a break.

Zmytsir comes from Smargoni.

In Belarus, he served in the 38th Airborne Brigade in Brest.

Loved sports and active recreation.

Recently, Zmytser lived in Warsaw.

He worked as a truck driver.

When the war started, "Terror" was on a flight to Riga.

He asked his friend Paul "Borto" to wait for him for a few days so that they could go to war together.

Zmytser received a shrapnel wound during the shelling of positions from a Russian BMP-3.

He regained consciousness, and the doctors assumed that nothing should threaten his life.

But the soldier died on the way to the hospital.

The Belarusian "Terror" battalion, which is fighting in the south of Ukraine, is named in honor of Zmytri.

Zmytser "Hans" Rubashevsky

30 years

Zmytser "Hans" Rubashevsky

Originally from Brest.

Studied at a construction school.

Fought since 2015.

He came to Lviv for a football match between the teams of Belarus and Ukraine, and stayed there.

He fought in the ranks of the "Right Sector".

For the protection of the Butovka mine, he was awarded the "People's Hero of Ukraine" award.

Rubashevsky had several wounds.

In 2019, he lost an eye in battle.

After his injury, he was cared for by the sister of the deceased sibling.

They soon got married and had a daughter.

Lived in Lviv region.

The call sign "Hans" was worn by the German Shalom of the Second World War.

Recently, he served in the 24th separate mechanized brigade of Prince Danyla Galitsky.

Died on April 12 during the fighting in the Luhansk region.

He was part of a company tactical group that made sorties behind enemy lines.

Before his death, "Hans" destroyed the commander of the Russian group.

Konstantin "Phoenix" Dubail

34 years old

Konstantin "Phoenix" Dubail

He also participated in battles in Ukraine since 2015.

Originally from Mogilev.

In 2016, he survived the battles on the Svetladar arc, where many soldiers from the Ukrainian side died.

He was thanked by the President of Ukraine.

When the full-scale war began, he was part of the "Donbass - Ukraine" battalion.

Died from a shell hit on April 26 in the Donetsk region.

Belarus was buried in Kryvyi Roz.

He lived in the city of Papasnaya, Donetsk region.

There he met his future wife Yana, she worked as the director of the local museum of local history.

Paval "The Giant" Suslav

27 years old

Paval "Volat" Suslav is at the head of the regiment

One of the most authoritative and experienced Belarusian soldiers in Ukraine.

Originally from Goml, his mother Natalya Suslava taught at the university there.

After the death of her son, she joined the Belarusian volunteers and even participated in the campaign to Kherson.

In Belarus, "Volat" served in military unit 3214, in the intelligence company.

From 2016, he fought in Ukraine.

He had many wounds, his relatives said that there was no living place on the body of the "Giant", he was covered in scars.

Even went through a coma.

Due to his health, he was refused to return to the front, but Kalinowski's regiment gave him such an opportunity.

"Giant" was the company commander.

Died on May 13 in the Mykolaiv region, blown up on a stretcher.

"This is a war, you either die or you don't," - the words of "The Giant" are repeated by his comrades in the service.

He was married, lived with his wife in Lutsk, had a daughter.

One of the battalions in the Kastus Kalinowski regiment is named in honor of Pavel Suslav.

Ivan "Brest" Marchuk

28 years old

Ivan "Brest" Marchuk

The face of Kalinowski's regiment.

As the brothers say, he is the most fearless Belarusian volunteer in Ukraine.

Commander of the "Giant" battalion.

Originally from Brest.

Studied at the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics majoring in "Telecommunications Engineer", but dropped out and went to Paris to join the French Legion.

He served there for several years.

Since 2015, the war in Ukraine.

"Most of all, when I came to the ATO zone, I was impressed and surprised by how people are ready to sacrifice themselves, but do not demand anything in return, for the sake of their own country," said Ivan in an interview with Svaboda a day before his death.

Ivan died on June 26 near Lisichansk, when a group of Belarusians clashed with the Russian army.

The "Brest" group was shelled by a tank.

Ivan and his associates accepted the fight, as a result, four were killed, and two more were taken prisoner.

Ivan's body, like the rest of the Belarusians who died in that battle, has still not been handed over to the Ukrainian side.

Vasyl "Friend" Parfyankov

38 years old

Vasyl "Friend" Parfyankov with a child

Mianchuk.

For many years he was a member of patriotic organizations - the Belarusian Party of Freedom, sympathized with the "Young Front" and "Speak the truth".

Back in 2002, Vasyl took part in the defense of the Kurapaty tract.

He was on the Maidan in 2004, where he joined the UNA-UNSO.

At the beginning of 2011, Parfyankov was detained in a criminal case for his participation in December 19 Square.

Vasyl was sentenced to 4 years in a penal colony, but he was released in September of the same year.

Parfyankov wrote a request for pardon, but did not call himself a political prisoner.

Parfyankov was also tried for violating the rules of preventive supervision, sent to forced treatment for alcoholism.

In all cases, human rights defenders recognized him as a political prisoner.

In 2015, Vasyl went to Ukraine, where he joined the battalion of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.

He fought in the Sands.

He had a severe wound.

Vasyl got married in Ukraine, raised three children together with his wife.

The Parthians did not have time to obtain Ukrainian citizenship.

Vasyl met the war together with his former comrades from the AUN battalion, and then joined Kalinovsky's regiment.

Vasyl's mother and other relatives were detained in Belarus, his cousin was even forced to leave the country due to persecution.

Vasyl "Atom" Grudovik

30 years

Vasyl "Atom" Grudovik

Pinchuk.

He was engaged in music for many years, played in various bands in Belarus and Poland, sometimes earned money as a street musician.

He left Belarus after the 2020 protest.

Vasyl himself participated in clashes with the police in his hometown on August 9.

At that time, he was working in a logistics company.

A criminal case was opened against Vasyl.

First he went to Ukraine, and then to Poland.

He earned his living by making candles.

When the war started, he immediately joined the Belarusian formation in Ukraine.

In the "Atam" regiment, he was in the company of heavy weapons, often worked together with the commander "Brest".

Colleagues say that Vasyl felt that he might not return from his last assignment in Lisichansk.

Vadym "Papik" Shatrov

44 years old

Vadym "Papik" Shatrov

For many years he lived in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine.

He built a house there, had a wife and three children.

Originally from Vorsha.

Colleagues say that "Papik" was very surprised by the huge number of Belarusians who came to fight in Ukraine.

"I'm defending my house, and what are you doing here?"

- sometimes jokingly, and sometimes seriously, he told his friends.

At the same time, Shatrov never got into either political issues or the internal problems of the regiment - he was focused exclusively on the performance of combat tasks.

Along with "Brest", "Friend" and "Atom", he died near Lisichansk on June 26.

Oleg "Khmury" Ponomarov

30 years

Oleg "Khmury" Ponomarov (in the photo, second from the front)

He died on July 7 near the village of Pavlovka, Donetsk region, but it became known only recently.

Oleg was originally from Mogilev.

He came to the war in 2014, served in the "Shakhtarsk" and "Karpatskaya Sech" battalions.

Participated in the battles at the "Butavka" mine and in Pesky.

Lived in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region.

Oleg Ponomarov served as a deputy commander of a combat vehicle, a gunner-operator of an assault platoon of an assault company in the "Aidar" battalion.

Died when a shell hit his trench.

They buried "Khmuray" under a white-red-white flag in the city of Uzhhorod in the west of Ukraine.

Aleksei "Reaper" Veshchavaylov

31 years old

Aleksei "Reaper" Veshchavaylov

Died on September 26 during the battles for Bakhmut.

He was among those Belarusians who are grouped around the "Pagonia" community.

Originally from Goml.

By origin, Alyaksei was a representative of the Erzya people (Mordva sub-ethnicity - RS), sometimes he used the call sign in the language of his people - "Ledya".

For him, both parts of the identity were important - Belarusian and Erzyan.

On September 30, he was supposed to be in Tallinn, where the Erzyan National Congress was held.

"Reaper" has been fighting since 2014.

In 2019, he returned to Belarus, already at the border, Aleksey was arrested, and then sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for "mercenary".

The former president of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma, sought the release of the soldier, but the Belarusian authorities only transferred him from the colony to a "settlement".

He was released in September 2021 and rejoined those fighting for the freedom of Ukraine.

"Reaper" died from a mine that hit directly into the trench.

He was buried in the Cherkasy region.

Mihas "Yunger" Shavelski

21 years old

Mihas "Yunger" Shavelski

Died during the battles for the Kherson Region.

Mikhas was a paramedic, he crawled to help his wounded brother, when a fragment of a Russian projectile hit the guy right in the neck.

"Junger" took the call sign in honor of the favorite German writer.

The guy is from Hrodna.

He studied psychology at a local university, but was expelled as a result of the 2020 protests.

He left for Poland, where he began to study to become a theologian.

Mikhas was a Lutheran believer.

Colleagues say that he always had a Bible with him.

The guy was buried in Vinnytsia, the bride of "Junger" lives there.

Alyaksei "Yakub" Avdzienko

Alyaksei "Yakub" Avdzienko

Little is known about "Yakub".

He fought in Ukraine since 2015.

According to Vadim Kabanchuk, one of the commanders of Kalinovsky's regiment, Alyaksei left a well-paying job in Belarus.

Alyaksei Avdzienka had state awards of Ukraine.

He fought in the ranks of USU.

Died on December 4 near Bakhmut.

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It is also known about the death of four more Belarusian volunteers, whose names and callsigns are withheld at the request of their relatives.

These are three fighters of the "Volat" battalion (dates of death - July 28, October 3, and November 7).

And also one fighter of the "Terror" battalion (died at the beginning of September).