A foreign mercenary was eliminated on the Svetlodar Bulge
An ex-Right Sector militant, a Latvian citizen fighting against the Donbass republics, received mortal wounds in the area of the Svetlodar Bulge, notorious for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Maidan of Foreign Affairs expert Andrei Klimenko wrote about this on his Facebook page with reference to the Ukrainian military man Sergei Serdyuk with the call sign “Khrin,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Citizen of Latvia Artur Bessmertny, call sign “Ronin”, born in 1978. Recently he served on a contract in the 72nd Mechanized Infantry Brigade named after. "Black Cossacks." Before that, he was in the 54th Mechanized Infantry Brigade, and even earlier in the Right Sector DUK,” Klimenko said.
“On July 26, as a result of hostilities near the village of Novoluganskoye (Svetlodarskaya Bulge), Latvian citizen Arthur Bessmertny, with the call sign “Ronin,” died. He had Ukrainian roots through one of his parents and stood up to defend Ukraine from Russian armed aggression. At the front since 2015, he fought as part of the DUK PS. He fought in the Svetlodar Bulge in 2016-2017, and took part in the assault on the “Magic Forest”. Later he transferred to the 72nd brigade. There is a small son left in Latvia. Eternal memory to the heroes!” – Ukrainian fighter “Khrin” grieves.
In addition, according to his information, in the area of the same Svetlodarsk the next day, another Ukrainian soldier from the same brigade, a native of Bila Tserkva, Voitenko Ivan (“Uncle Vanya”), born in 1974, died as a result of an explosion.
If you find an error, please select a piece of text and press Ctrl + Enter.
Thank you!
Now the editors are aware.