18-year-old Military Academy cadet from Lyakhovichi said nothing to anyone, took his documents, and went to fight for Russia. Now they mourn him.

Raman Shpak is the youngest Belarusian to die in the war with Ukraine. At the time of his disappearance, he was 18 years, 1 month, and 2 days old. If anyone tries, it's unlikely they will manage to reach the front faster.

According to Belpol, Raman was born on June 8, 2007, in Lyakhovichi. His family is simple; his parents are a forester and a nurse. In school, the boy was interested in nature, attended an agricultural elective, but eventually decided to wear shoulder straps, so he enrolled in the Military Academy.

Raman awaited his 18th birthday with only one goal: to leave the country without parental permission and sign a contract with the Russian army.

"During the holidays, he told his parents he was going to work in Minsk. They put him on a train, and when they called a couple of hours later to ask how he arrived, he stunned them: 'Mom, Dad, I took my documents from the Military Academy, I'm going to Russia to enlist in the army'," a family acquaintance told "Nasha Niva".

The boy had had such impulses before. As a cadet, he sometimes mused that "it could be possible," but no one took it seriously. Including his family.

"He read various resources there, watched videos, was interested in it. He also had a friend who was even more obsessed and really wanted to go to war. But that one ultimately went nowhere, while Roma went," adds the interlocutor.

Raman signed his contract in Moscow. But he was immediately sent to the front, bypassing training – a typical situation for today's Russian army. Raman Shpak was very indignant about this, believing he had been deceived. But for Russian officers, it no longer mattered.

Shpak ended up in military unit 12271 (25th Army, 67th Division). It was reported about this unit that it not only does not recover the bodies of its soldiers from the battlefield but not even the wounded.

While conscious, they die from wounds, thirst, cold, and hunger, screaming requests for evacuation into their radios until the battery dies – no one answers.

These very circumstances prompted women relatives of soldiers from military unit 12271 to appeal to Putin in the spring of 2025. Putin did not respond to the appeal.

It is very possible that Raman Shpak also spent the last hours of his life in a similar way. The yesterday's first-year cadet of the Military Academy was sent into his last (and possibly first) assault on July 10, 2025 – a month and two days after turning 18. He perished in that assault.

"Now everyone is crying for him," an acquaintance of the family concluded.

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