22:43, 9 March 2022

An officer killed in special military operation buried in Kuban

Nikolai Bely. Screenshot https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca1TdrEouI8/

25-year-old Senior Lieutenant Nikolai Bely, killed during the special military operation in Ukraine, is buried in the Kuban village of Staroscherbinovskaya.

On March 8, Major Aleksei Ilnitsky and Private Igor Khaziakhmetov, killed during the fighting in Ukraine, were buried in the Kanevsky District of Kuban. The authorities of the region promised to pay two million roubles to the families of each killed military.

“Since June 2019, Nikolai was a commander of an airborne assault troop ... Being a graduate of the Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne School, he fulfilled his military duty with honour,” the newspaper “Scherbinovsky Courier” reports on its Instagram page.

In October 2021, Nikolai Bely turned 25 years old, and he had a wife and a little daughter, the newspaper reports.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on March 9, 2022 at 11:36 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

Source: Caucasian Knot