Belarusian warehouseman with a swastika on his shoulder was treated for alcoholism in Siberia and went to fight for Russia, but was left without payments or work

Pavel Chuyashkov is 42 years old. In chats, he called himself an "underqualified historian" because he completed two courses at the historical faculty of Brest State University, dropped out, and ended up serving in the border troops. The man wrote about his wild youth and admitted that he used to be a "Dynamo Brest" football hooligan, and has worn a swastika on his shoulder since he was 14.

According to "Belpol", things didn't work out for Chuyashkov in Belarus: in 2005-2006 he worked at "Alyutekh", in 2009 he was a loader, and in 2011-2012 he worked as a warehouseman. Periods of work constantly alternated with unemployment.

By 2016-2017, the man had settled in Brest, where he regularly appeared in police reports due to alcohol. He had several administrative protocols for drunkenness, lost his military ID "under unclear circumstances," and once near the Brest cafe "Bistro" on Pushkinskaya Street, his jacket, t-shirts, and mobile phone were stolen.

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On social networks, Chuyashkov broadcast radical pro-Russian and pro-government views. During the "parasite" protests in 2017, he wrote:

"The police are cleaning up the trash from the main streets of the capital. For the first time, I regret not joining the police after the army. That would have been a real celebration today."

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In 2020, he rejoiced at the brutal dispersal of peaceful marches and arrests, mocked the human rights center "Viasna," and published imperial flags with reflections on nationalism:

"Russian - that's when your thinking, even subconscious, is Imperial. Glory to Russia. Glory to the triune Slavic kin."

The further story is known from his Telegram messages.

Due to chronic alcoholism, Chuyashkov's first marriage fell apart. He himself mentioned in chats that while he was drinking, he took "as much money as he was allowed" from his family.

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Around 2019-2020, the Belarusian settled in the Irkutsk region of Russia (lived in Irkutsk and the city of Shelekhov), where he ended up in a rehabilitation center for addicts. After the course of treatment, he stayed to work in the same center as a consultant and social work specialist for a small salary. In Siberia, he married a second time - to a woman who also underwent a rehabilitation program, and in 2020, the couple had a son, who was given an unusual name - Yevpaty.

From 2021 to 2023, Chuyashkov worked at the Irkutsk "Trading Company Vershina", from where he went on shifts to the north of Russia as a warehouseman.

At one job, a deficit of tens of thousands of dollars was discovered after him, and at another shift, he boasted that he had found an Uzbek victim in the warehouse whom he harassed, abusing his official position. Simultaneously, Russian bailiffs regularly initiated enforcement proceedings against him for debts.

After another alcoholic relapse during a shift in April 2022, Chuyashkov decided to go to war against Ukraine. He sent an official appeal to the administration of Vladimir Putin:

"Greetings, Comrade Commander-in-Chief. I am a citizen of the Republic of Belarus. Given the situation, I see no possibility for myself to remain aloof from the conflict, I ask you to resolve the issue at the level of your power structures - to go to the area of the special military operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and not be held accountable under the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus for mercenarism. I have no combat experience, but I promise to study this science diligently. I count on your help."

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Chuyashkov signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in April 2024, joining the 15th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade from Samara, known as the "Black Hussars". He fought in the Avdiivka and Pokrovsk directions: first storming positions, and later becoming a senior evacuation group leader.

"Radio Svoboda" called the "Black Hussars" the bloodiest brigade of the war - losses there are colossal. More than 4,000 people from the Volga region alone died there. But Chuyashkov was lucky to survive.

In the summer of 2024 - a few months after arriving at the front - a kamikaze drone exploded three meters away from him: the Belarusian had his arms and body cut by shrapnel, but he had to wait 16 days for evacuation to a hospital because there weren't enough places for the wounded.

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In Z-chats, he called for "finishing off all the scum still left in Belarus," and proposed sending Belarusian emigrants to "specially equipped filtration sites with very serious screening." On VKontakte, he wrote at the same time: "Demilitarization to Lviv (Gdańsk)."

In Irkutsk, he joined the Russian nationalist group "Northern Man," wrote denunciations to the Russian Investigative Committee, fondly spoke of Nazi skinheads he met in Shelekhov with white laces in their boots, and dreamed of veterans returning from the front strapping grenades to FPV-drones and launching them into crowds of migrants on Russian streets, "to watch the mincemeat."

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However, the Russian state thanked the Belarusian mercenary in its own way.

In September 2025, Chuyashkov complained in a military chat that after almost two years on the front line and injuries, he still hadn't received a Russian passport or due money: "1.9 [years] at the front, the only Russian document is a military ID. They don't even pay me veteran benefits - because I'm a foreigner. Eh..."

At the end of 2025, he posted his resume on a job search website in Irkutsk, hoping to get a job as a warehouseman, and in August 2026, he informed former comrades that he had been discharged from the Russian army and was unsuccessfully looking for work in the Irkutsk region, because "it's wild everywhere."

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