Fourteen fighters from the Rostov region were killed in a military operation.

Oleg Orlov, Alesey Popov, Andrey Kizoglov, and 11 other fighters from the Zernograd district were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 753 fighters from the Rostov region have been officially recognized as killed.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," by October, authorities and security forces had recognized at least 739 fighters from the Rostov region as killed.

Oleg Orlov was killed in a military operation in Ukraine, the Zernograd district administration reported today. He was born in 1976 in Taganrog and attended Zernograd School No. 14. After graduating from the Aviation Technical School, he participated in combat operations in Chechnya, worked as a civilian, and in August 2023, he volunteered for the North Military District. On December 21, 2023, Oleg was killed near Avdiivka, according to the district administration's Telegram channel.

Previously, district authorities reported that Alexey Popov, Andrey Kizoglov, Ruslan Bagautdinov, Daniil Kolesnichenko, Dmitry Matsyuk, Ivan Drovalev, Dmitry Maiboroda, Sergey Martynenko, Sergey Pogorelov, Sergey Shadyev, Alexander Polivoda, Roman Boldarev, and Alexander Fomin were killed in the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts.

Thus, at least 739 fighters from the Rostov Region have been officially recognized as killed in the war zone in Ukraine. The "Caucasian Knot" maintains a list of names of natives of the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts killed in the military operation. The list was compiled based on data officially released by government officials and law enforcement agencies, according to the "Caucasian Knot" report "Northeastern Military District Statistics: Losses Are Growing in Southern Russia".