Aliaksiej Skoblia

"Bison"), was a Belarusian soldier who was deputy commander of the Kastuś Kalinoŭski Battalion under the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

[4][5] Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Skoblia became deputy commander of the newly formed Kastuś Kalinoŭski Battalion of Belarusian volunteers.

In the week preceding his death, he had rescued ten wounded soldiers of the battalion using his professional medical skills.

[6][7][8][9] A farewell ceremony took place on 16 March 2022 at the Kyiv Crematorium, at which a specially-composed poem was read by one of the battalion's soldiers: I will go through a steadily difficult path of endless and bloody war.

"[1][9] On 22 November 2022, the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in exile awarded Skoblia with the Medal of the Order of the Pahonia.