A cassette bomb struck: a well-known Russian neo-Nazi was eliminated near Avdiivka. Photo

Near Avdiivka, Donetsk region, Ukrainian soldiers eliminated Russian neo-Nazi Maxim Aristarkhov. In July 2022, he was sentenced to 16 years in prison for the murder of two migrants on the grounds of ethnic hatred. Aristarkhov was sentenced while he was already in prison for the murder of a taxi driver.

However, in September 2023, Aristarkhov, who is called an "associate" of the famous Russian neo-Nazi Maxim Martsinkevich, came to kill Ukrainians as part of the Russian Storm Z unit, and two months later, it became known that he had been eliminated. The Ukrainian media reported on the destruction of another "hero".

According to Russian propagandists, it became known in November that the repeat killer Aristarkhov, who openly held neo-Nazi views, had been eliminated. He, along with other occupants, came under fire, allegedly with cluster munitions. The surviving invaders said that Aristarkhov was killed. However, his body has not yet been found.

"They are searching for the body and cannot find it. We have been searching for it ourselves for a long time because he stopped communicating. His colleagues, who were in the unit with him, said that a cluster munition hit them. Two people ended up in the hospital after the attack, and my brother was killed," the propagandists quote Aristarkhov's sister Anastasia as saying.

Aristarkhov was sent to the front in Ukraine in September as part of the Russian Storm Z assault unit, directly from prison, where he was serving a sentence for murder.

In July 2022, based on Martsinkevich's testimony, a court sentenced his associate to 16 years in prison for the murder of two migrants in 2007: on the grounds of ethnic hatred, he and his "like-minded people" took the lives of a Dagestani and, probably, a native of Tajikistan.

"In April 2007, in the Losiny Ostrov park in the Moscow region, several masked young men against the backdrop of a swastika flag killed two visitors, filming the murder on video and posting it on the Internet. Initially, the investigating authorities, after checking the video, claimed that it was a staged recording. However, later it turned out that the murder was real. Investigators identified one of the victims as a native of Dagestan, Shamil Udamanov, who was beheaded by the criminals," the Russian edition of Radio Liberty reported at the time.

Aristarkhov heard the verdict while he was already in prison: he was serving a sentence for the murder of a taxi driver in the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation.

However, as it turned out, the Russian army desperately needed such personnel: without serving a year for the murder of two people, the associate of Tesak joined Storm-Z and went to realize his "talents" in Ukraine.

However, Ukrainian soldiers quickly ended the inglorious life of the repeat killer.

"An associate of the famous Russian neo-Nazi Tesak, another Russian neo-Nazi Maxim Aristarkhov, was killed near Avdiivka. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison but was released in September to participate in the war against Ukraine. This is a rare case when denazification happened at the front - a Nazi was killed," journalist Denys Kazanskyi commented on the news of the occupier's elimination.

As a reminder, the day before, on November 7, the Defense Forces destroyed 780 occupants and 126 pieces of enemy equipment and weapons. Among other things, 29 artillery systems of the occupiers were eliminated.

It was also reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine could conduct larger-than-usual operations on the left bank of the Kherson region, and this is making the Russian occupiers panic. In particular, the invaders from Storm Z refuse to storm the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the left bank.

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