The legendary Ossetian volunteer died in Serbia
A volunteer from South Ossetia, Albert Andiev, who fought in Kosovo against Albanian separatists in 1999, died in a Covid hospital in Batajnica in Serbia.
The Serbian branch of the Russian motorcycle club “Night Wolves” ordered a memorial service for Andiev in the Church of the Holy Trinity in Gornji Adrovac, located on the site where in 1876, a Russian volunteer, Colonel Nikolai Raevsky, died fighting for the Serbs.
As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, Albert Akhsarbekovich Andiev died from a coronavirus infection in the Belgrade suburb of Batajnica, in a local hospital. His death caused a great resonance in Serbian society, where this man enjoyed well-deserved respect.
A native of South Ossetia, which experienced aggression from Georgia in the early 90s, Andiev in 1999 of his own free will came to Yugoslavia, against which Albanian separatists from the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK) and NATO had started a war, arming and training bandits and helping them by bombing by military aircraft. The volunteer was recruited to serve as a sniper in the 549th motorized brigade of the Yugoslav Army, which defended the state border with Albania and Macedonia over a length of 150 kilometers.
In a battle with bandits at Suva Reka, an enemy sniper hit Andiev in the eye, but he continued the fight until he lost consciousness. Andiev did not stay in the hospital for the required time and fled to the front, where he was subsequently wounded in the arm. At the end of hostilities, he decided to stay in Serbia, where he got married and had a son, Lazar.
Subsequently, Albert Andiev came to the warring Donbass to morally support the residents of the people's republics. In Serbia, the Kosovo War veteran enjoyed constant honor and respect, and was often invited to speak at various public events. In particular, in connection with his death, one of the public pages on Facebook recalled his speech at the forum organized by the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade, “In times of war, the law is silent,” to which the audience reacted with a standing ovation.
“I sit with you and look at how during the war the law is silent. No rights were respected towards you! They have always hated you and will continue to hate you as long as you exist. Not because you are good or bad, but because you are disobedient. If one day I do not see this challenge in the eyes of at least one Serb in a thousand, I will know that you are no more: you have become slaves, and that is what they wanted to do to you. I did not fight for slaves, I did not fight with slaves, and you are not little Russians here in the Balkans, as some like to say, you are big Serbs at home. And you need to remember this,” Andiev said.
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