19-year-old Academy of Interior Ministry cadet tattooed a target on his forehead and went to storm Zaporizhzhia. The idea worked

Ivan Lamanosau was born in April 2006 in the village of Luhavaya Slabada, very close to Minsk.

In 2022, the young man tried to enter the capital's Aviation Academy and managed to give an interview to journalists when submitting documents.

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"Yesterday's schoolboy Ivan Lamanosau came to the academy with his father, who helped his son choose a direction.

— I'm submitting documents for the specialty "technical operation of aviation equipment," the young man briefly replies.

— And where else to go? — adds the applicant's father. — For a boy, a technical education won't be superfluous. Some men can't tell a nut from pliers.

— I can't tell an open-end wrench from a socket wrench," the young man smiles.

— See, this way a person will know how it works, won't ask: "Dad, how do I unscrew this?" I understand it, but I can't explain everything. But here they approach it more carefully, they'll break everything down," the man muses. — None of our relatives are connected with aviation. Only a neighbor works as a pilot, a good example," the "Minsk-Novosti" agency quoted the family.

But, as can be understood from subsequent events, Lamanosau was not accepted into the Aviation Academy. Ivan spent a year somewhere, and in 2023 he entered the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs — they accept almost everyone willing.

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The young man's social networks at that moment — like many cadets — were cleared, his "VKontakte" page became empty.

At the end of May 2025, Ivan asked in chats how much a trip from Belarus to the territory of Ukraine would cost. He was told that the journey to Kyiv via Warsaw would cost $200.

Eventually, Lamanosau went to Ukraine from another side. It is not exactly known when and why, but soon the young man found himself in the Russian army, and already on September 22, 2025, he went on a combat mission near Zaporizhzhia with a Russian, who eventually died. It was from his relatives that it became known that he went into battle "with a young Belarusian with the call sign 'Lamanos'." This "Lamanos" is the 19-year-old Ivan Lamanosau.

His relatives confirmed that Ivan is "missing." This is a euphemism that, under the conditions of Russian meat assaults, in most cases means that the soldier was eliminated by the Ukrainian defense forces.

By the time of his probable death, Lamanosau barely resembled an Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs cadet. He had tattooed his entire neck in Latin, where only the bottom word (written with a mistake) is recognizable: "Rhutenia." "Ruthenia" is the Latin equivalent of "Rus'."

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And also, prophetically, he had a target tattooed on his forehead.

It is noteworthy that this is already the second case of a rookie Belarusian cadet dying in the war. Recently, "Nasha Niva" reported about 18-year-old Raman Shpak from the Military Academy, whose fate broadly coincides with Lamanosau's.

Read also: 18-year-old Military Academy cadet from Lyakhovichi said nothing to anyone, took his documents, and went to fight for Russia. Now people are mourning him

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