40-year-old "Zubr" from Orsha district died near Vovchansk. He went to fight for Russia due to debts

Aliaksandr Sidarenka was born in 1986 and came from the Orsha district.

He studied at a school in the village of Andreyeushchyna, and then worked as a laborer and driver at local enterprises: "Stotz Agro-Service Mitkovshchina", Orsha District Veterinary Station, "Samsvyazbud" company, bread products factory, bakery, and "Vidus" transport company. He was married and had a daughter.

According to Belpol, in Belarus, the man had problems with the law due to drunkenness, scandals, and insubordination to the police. In 2004, he was sentenced to 80 hours of community service for hooliganism after he hit a person in the courtyard of a house in the village of Yakubava. And in 2012, he was assigned another 200 hours of community service for intentionally damaging someone else's Nissan Primera car near a store in Mitkovshchina.

From the mid-2010s, Sidarenka began to go to Russia for work – he lived in Sergiev Posad and Aprelevka in the Moscow region, as well as in St. Petersburg. He worked as a truck driver.

In Russia, the Belarusian had money problems and was fond of gambling: he took microloans, accumulated debts to bailiffs, registered in online casinos, and was subscribed to chats with sports betting, "signals" for crash games, and crypto mining.

Aliaksandr decided to improve his financial situation by going to war against Ukraine. He signed a contract with the Russian army, took the call sign "Zubr," and served in the 82nd Motorized Rifle Regiment of the Russian Armed Forces. Sidarenka died in the Vovchansk direction in Kharkiv Oblast – according to the Telegram channel "Kharkivsky Napryamok," his body was found in a forest belt near the village of Vilcha.

According to an assessment by Vadim Kabanchuk, representative of the United Transitional Cabinet for Defense and National Security, more than 500 Belarusians have already died in the invading war in Ukraine as part of the Russian army. They were tempted by promises of easy money.

As military experts have calculated, the average life span of a Russian mercenary on the front is several months, and in assault units — several weeks.

Both Western intelligence and Russian journalists estimate that Russia has lost more than 550,000 servicemen killed and about 1.5 million wounded over four years of war.

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