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Squeezed Between Armored Personnel Carriers: Details Of Soldier's Death Near Vitsebsk Released

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Squeezed Between Armored Personnel Carriers: Details Of Soldier's Death Near Vitsebsk Released
Aliaksandr Khadkevich

The victim, who died during military exercises in Vitsebsk region, had 8 months left before the “demobilization.”

There have been released some details on the conscript’s death in one of the units in Vitsebsk region. The guy was 19 years old, he was a native of Polatsk, he had served in the army almost a year. Aliaksandr died at a shooting ground during military exercises, having been caught between two armored personnel carriers. A soldier’s relative told tut.by about that.

The misfortune happened on 21 September. The soldier was killed “as a result of safety requirements violations“: he received injuries incompatible with life, the Ministry of Defence press service informed.

The victim is a 19-year-old Polatsk resident Aliaksandr Khadkevich. He served in the military unit № 71327. Its full name is the Guards Budapest Red Banner Order of Suvorov II-nd degree independent mechanized brigade. It is deployed in the village of Zaslonava in Lepel’ski district.

Aliaksandr was called up for military service in November last year. This summer, in July, he was granted home leave. His parents and his girlfriend were waiting for him at home. After 8 months in May he would be “demobilized.”

– It happened during the exercises at a training ground near Vitsebsk, – the young man’s aunt said. – The armored personnel carriers were driving in column, then stopped. Sasha was in one of the machines. He went out, maybe, he wanted to hand over something to someone else, or there was another reason. He was standing between two machines. A boy, the driver of another machine, did not notice Sasha, and decided to start the car for some reason: maybe he wanted to get warm, maybe he heard an order to move – it is still unknown. And the tragedy happened. The funeral has been today [on September 23].

“Gone to repay the motherland! Miss me, and do not forget to write!” – Aliaksandr asked all the relatives and friends before leaving to the army.

— There has been a lot of bad news from the army recently. It’s scary. It feels like we send sons not to the army, but to the war – Aliaksandr’s aunt is distressed.

According to her, the nephew got a profession of a tile layer and a stone setter before the army, after the army retirement he planned to go to work at a construction company.

The soldier’s death is under examination. The Ministry of Defense expresses its condolences to the relatives of the deceased and promises help.

– They allocated money for the coffin, funeral and commemoration, – the soldier’s relative confirms.

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