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Who is Mikhail Tolstoy-Givi, how he became a member of the armed conflict in the east of Ukraine, who could kill him and what could be the consequences of this murder? The Russian BBC service asked these questions to two journalists who worked in the Donbass. Ilya Barabanov, a special correspondent of Kommersant ID: Mikhail Tolstoy, like Arseniy Pavlov, the call sign of Motorola, commanded the battalion of the Donbass separatists of Sparta, died in the explosion in October of the year, gained fame during the battles for Donetsk airport, which went until January of the year.

They acted as the main speakers, the faces of this war for official Russian media. Everyone had an understandable role, role. Pavlov is a model of a militia, a man from the earth who came to help the brotherly people of Donbass. Givi - a native of local, indigenous Donetsk, although how indigenous - you still need to understand. Protects his land and his people.

While there was an active phase of hostilities, these people were needed. But after the second Minsk, the need for bright commanders abruptly disappeared - the bureaucracy and the brightness of the thing are incompatible. It became clear that only those who will be less bright. Thus, Dremov [Pavel Dremov, the call sign, died in the LPR, died on December 12th during the explosion of a car on the way to his wedding], Batman [Alexander Bednov, a former Minister of Defense of the Self -proclaimed LPR, was killed on January 1 during the execution of the column], the brain [Aleksei Mozgova, the commander of the ghost battalion, died during the shelling of his car on May 23] - on May 23] - on May 23] - on May 23] on May 23] on May 23] on May 23] on May 23] on May 23] on May 23] on May 23] on May 23] They did not want to integrate into the vertical.

In Donetsk they preferred to negotiate. The need for Rifleov [Igor Girkin, the former “Minister of Defense” of the DPR, now lives in Moscow], Bezler [Igor Bezler, the call sign, the former commander of the “People’s Militia of the Donbass”] - they were taken out of the game. Now there is no one to display. It is important to recall that after the explosion in which Pavlov died, Tolstoy wanted to escape and take his family into Transnistria.

The question is why they decided to get rid of him right now, what happened? It is clear that this is not a Ukrainian sabotage group - they are not at all related to the deaths of commanders in the DPR. There is business, property affairs. There are rumors that he "finished" the plant in Gorlovka - to the color meter, and sold to Russia. Since we observe the aggravation of the situation, maybe this is an internal conflict.

Someone could decide to use the situation, put pressure on the Russian authorities. In any case, on this, if my memory does not change me, a series of commanders murders can be completed. In Donetsk, only the former commander of the East Khodakovsky [Alexander Khodakovsky, the former secretary of the Council of People's Commissars of the DPR, who later announced the departure of the opposition].

Individuals, by and large, are no more. In his place, I would have thought that from Donetsk to leave quickly. On the one hand, we constantly hear from the official [Russian] propagandists that the DPR tanks will soon be in Kyiv, and the political scientist [Sergey] tells how the Mongol University called the Donbass army one of the strongest in the world. Then these same people tell us about the mysterious sabotage group, and for some reason this does not cause dissonance.

But we are in the turbulence zone, given the tense atmosphere around the Avdeevka, in the Mariupol direction. The second Minsk agreements are soon two years old. It became obvious that they would not be able to fulfill them, even a point on the exchange of prisoners. Official policies will also have to be recognized as unfulfilled, but only a new round of military operations can be an alternative to peace agreements.

Those who eliminated Mikhail Tolstoy, to this, perhaps, want to bring the situation. Tall, dark, efficient, fit. Favorite sports - boxing, football. His grandfather, who participated in the Great Patriotic War, had the nickname Givi; He took the same nickname as a call sign here during the war. By itself - a mobile, sharp, daring, expressing everything in the eyes of a person who has been interested in the ideas of the "Donbass People’s Republic" and military affairs for the past three years.

At first he commanded a company, then a tank battalion and ended his life as commander of a motorized rifle battalion. His death is associated with the hit of the thermobaric shell of the bumblebee jet fireflow, the volumetric explosion of which burns all living things for 0.4 seconds. Since he fought against the Armed Forces of Ukraine, first of all, his death could be beneficial to the Armed Forces of Ukraine as an enemy of the "Donetsk People’s Republic." First of all, they are interested.

My point of view - theses can lie around Ukrainian sabotage groups that operate in Donetsk. If so, then it was done in a professional plan and cleanly - they did and left. The struggle for power here is constantly: there were primaries, there were elections - elections of mayors of municipalities. The struggle, it continues, it is everywhere, this is a legitimate process. I do not think that Givi’s death is associated with such a struggle for power.This is all the continuation of the war, which neither the West nor the East will stop in any way.

All this is a war, and everything else is already a consequence of this phenomenon. In fact, the processes are very sharp, and they, of course, should alert not only the inhabitants of Donetsk or Ukraine, but also the inhabitants of Europe and the Russian Federation, because if there is a sabotage war, it will kill people who protect this or that idea in the West, Russia, and in the CIS.

This is a very dangerous phenomenon that can very quickly and negatively affect the lives of ordinary people. I do not think that Givi’s death is associated with the recent escalation in the region. You can’t just jump out like a tobacker's devil, let a thermobaric shell and leave. All these things - they are cooked carefully, for more than one month. Read also.