Russia has killed a descendant of the Makhno family with a strike on Huliaipole in Zaporizhzhia. Photo

One of the last descendants of Nestor Makhno, Nestor Yalanskyi, was killed on the evening of February 20 as a result of the Russian aggressor army's attack on Huliaipole, Zaporizhzhia region. His father, Viktor Yalanskyi, was a well-known local historian and grandson of Karpo Makhno, the Ukrainian revolutionary's older brother.

This was reported on February 21 on Facebook by "Huliaipole Antiquities" PO. "In Huliaipole, Russians killed Nestor Yalanskyi, who was the son of Viktor Yalanskyi, a well-known local historian, grandson of Karpo Makhno and great-nephew of Nestor Makhno, as a result of another shelling," the statement reads.

Nestor Yalanskyi was one of the last direct descendants of the Makhno family to live in Huliaipole.

"In 1919, his great-grandfather, Karpo Makhno, was tortured and killed in Huliaipole by the White Guard Cossacks of General Denikin's Russian volunteer army, who captured the city. Eternal memory," the PO said in a statement.

As you know, Karpo, or Polikarp Makhno, was the older brother of Nestor Makhno. In January 1919, when Nestor was not in Huliaipole, the "whites" broke into the village. They were looking for Makhno's house and stumbled upon the home of the 52-year-old Karpo, according to Valerii Volkovynskyi's book "Nestor Makhno: Legend and Reality."

In the presence of his wife and nine children, the White Guards beat him with whips, then tied him up and drove him barefoot in the snow to a gully, where they continued to torture him, demanding to know where the rebels were and what their plans were.

Without knowing anything, they ordered Karpo to go forward and opened fire. Bullets flew over his head, but the man fainted and died the same day. The "whites" burned down Karpo Makhno's house, leaving his large family homeless.

Nestor Makhno took the loss of his elder brother very hard, believing that he had died because of him. Bowing to Karpo's grave, he vowed revenge, the book says.

As reported by OBOZ.UA, at about 18:00 on Thursday, February 20, Russian troops opened fire on the frontline village of Huliaipole. The RMA reported that a 53-year-old man died as a result of the enemy shelling. Private houses were partially destroyed by the blast wave and debris.

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