‘Edik Went Out And Shot Fifteen Russians With Single Shots’

The mother of the heroic Belarusian volunteer told about his last fight.

Belarusian volunteer Eduard Lobau died on January 26, defending the Ukrainian city of Vuhledar. The fighter of the 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade has been fighting in Ukraine since 2015.

The mother of the Belarusian volunteer Maryna Lobava remembers her heroic son together with Belsat.

“When the war started, he wrote to me that everything is fine and everything is calm, he simply did not have an Internet connection. Only later I found out that Edik was in flashpoints near Kyiv, then Chornobyl, he defended Hostomel, then fought near Bakhmut and Vuhledar,” Maryna Lobava says.

“I have not yet spoken to the junior sergeant rescued by Edik. He managed to carry the wounded from a battlefield. I know from the words that I was told from him that the battle dragged on for a long time. Edik went out and shot fifteen Russians with single shots. Then they entered in-close fighting and he wanted to disable a Russian tank with the Javelin. Then he had a shrapnel wound. They could not take him out for a long time because of the close fighting, the paramedics could not come up. Maybe if they had managed to pick up Edik earlier, they could have saved him,” the mother of the Belarusian volunteer told about his last battle.

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Belarusian volunteer Eduard Lobau died on January 26 defending Vuhledar. He served in the ranks of the 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade and participated in the liberation of the Kyiv Region and Chornobyl from the Russian invaders.

Eduard Lobau was a former political prisoner. He was detained on December 18, 2010, together with the leader of the Young Front, Dzmitry Dashkevich, and then illegally sentenced to four years in a strict regime colony. Eduard completely served his term in the Wolf Holes colony.

Eduard Lobau had been fighting in Ukraine since 2015.

In 2014, Charter97.org announced him as a laureate of the Viktar Ivashkevich National Human Rights Award.

He was buried at the Powązki Wojskowe cemetery in Warsaw.