Ghost Brigade communist commanders’ statement on assassination of Alexei Mozgovoi

Alexey Markov: With great sorrow we have to communicate to our friends of Western Europe, the U.S., Latin America and Africa, that today around 17:30 an assassination attempt happened against our brigade commander Mozgovoi.

His car was hit by an explosive and there were several machine-gun shots. Unfortunately, all the people in the car are dead: our brigade commander Alexei Mozgovoi, his spokesperson Anna, the guards Holst and Metla, the driver Pesnya.

We are not going to build a castle of conjectures about who stands behind this barbaric crime. The police will think about it. The command of the brigade will do everything possible to help the Republic find the murderers, those ones who, I am sure, will be punished. From our site we will assist in all possible ways.

Pyotr Biryukov: The Ghost Brigade, and communist unit as part of it, will not disappear as a force against fascism. Our volunteers are the proof of this fact, and the people who help us, who trust us and rely on us to defend them.

One of the combatants of the brigade has been killed; the commander. But his work lives with us. We will carry it on.

AM: Our flag resists. I am sure that the brigade flag will be seen in Lysichansk, Kharkov and Kiev very soon, and will be the best memorial for our commander.

PB: This will be an authentic memorial for him.

However, if the enemy on the opposite side is happy, they are happy for nothing. We are not scared. Fire tempers steel. As communists, we declare it simply and unequivocally.

AM: They will not scare us. We know very well where we are going and what we can lose along the way – and what we are fighting for. Anyone who thinks we will be scared or stop or get lost is going to be disappointed very soon.

We feel pain and grief now, but soon our pain will turn into anger. And on the front line our “very hated friends” from the opposite side …

PB: … will feel this anger on themselves. The anger of our combatants.

AM: A person can be murdered, but not his ideas. The idea Alexei Mozgovoi had been carrying on since last year, the one which brought thousands of people to join us. With the death of one person, the ideas will not die. We are going to carry them through the war, through the misery, through the death. With these ideas, we will live, and build a better life. 

Unfortunately, the best things civilization brings are paid for with the blood and lives of many brave people.

PB: The best people.

AM: But if we were not ready to pay this price, humanity would still be wearing furs and smash each others heads with stone hammers.

PB: Or split the community into nationalities or measuring the noses …

AM: Or skulls …

PB: Or burn itself in the furnaces of Auschwitz.

AM: Our foreign friends can be sure that the communist brigade exited, exists and will exist as long as it serves Novorossiya, and we suggest to our enemies not to celebrate ahead of time. Not much time remains to you.

PB: And I would add, not only “as long as it serves Novorossiya” but till it serves all the people. All the people want justice. All the people need the truth.

We are not afraid to die for this.

AM: Sometimes it is necessary.

Both: ‘¡No pasarán!