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Aleksey Mozgovoy

Aleksey Mozgovoy (3 April 1975 – 23 May 2015), also known as Alexei Mozgovoi, was a general of the Luhansk People's Republic during the Ukrainian Civil War.

He was the commander of the Prizrak Battalion, and was also the leader of a "people's court" that issued death sentences.

Biography[]

Aleksey Mozgovoy was born on 3 April 1975 in Svatove Raion, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. He served as a foreign worker in Russia as a cook in St. Petersburg at the time of the start of the Ukrainian Civil War in 2014, and he returned to Ukraine to become a commander of the separatist Luhansk People's Republic.

He took command of the Prizrak Battalion and pledged allegiance to Igor Girkin, and fought against the government of Ukraine. During the war, he issued an order that said that any woman in a bar or cafe would be arrested. When asked why he issued the order, he said that he wanted to preserve their "spirituality" because they were "Russian", and said that they would be a bad mother if they spent time at bars, restaurants, and cafes; he said that they should stay at home and cook pirozhki (buns stuffed with fillings) and they could only drink on International Women's Day. He also issued a death sentence against people accused of "rape", carried out by a "people's court". When the governments of the separatist movements signed the Minsk II peace treaty with Ukraine, Mozgovoy became a critic of the government of Novorossiya.

On 23 May 2015, Mozgovoy was killed in eastern Ukraine on the road from Alchevsk to Luhansk when a bomb struck his car, which was then targeted by gunfire. Mozgovoy and six others were killed in the attack, which came just days after two GRU agents from Russia admitted to being Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine.

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