Separatist Commander 'Givi' Killed In Eastern Ukraine

Russia-backed separatists say one of their commanders in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine has been assassinated. Mikhail Tolstykh was better known by his nom de guerre, Givi.
Originally published at - www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-donets...

[@Shinyworldwide]

“You’ve made me what i am, now you get what you’ve made”

[@NickyDekker89]

Didnt Givi get killed in Avdiivka? Avdiivka has been liberated now.

[@sonnerilten3131]

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

[@NickyDekker89]

@@sonnerilten3131 Time to go to Ukraine my friend, they need you.

[@gisa1430]

No, he was killed long ago in rocket strike I believe

[@arvindsingh-yh5oi]

​@@gisa1430 He was killed by a bomb in his office planted by the Ukrainian SBU

[@NickyDekker89]

@@gisa1430 Yes. In Avdiivka.

[@sealifett8395]

His own country refused him in the army so they get what they made

[@sealifett8395]

Watch the new map of the former country called Ukraine 😂😂@CSOB2B

[@sealifett8395]

30% of Ukraine is under Russian control.Does that make you cry at night? @CSOB2B

[@barbosaguzman6101]

​​@CSOB2Bare you trying to be funny? We can only imagine how many Nazi invaders he's demolished running up to his death - Show some respect, educated yourself about him and you'll respect him too & Motorola.

[@pwrm8721]

@CSOB2B Yeah, after he was responsible for a lot of death and anguish. I don’t know, this whole Donbass situation is a bit confusing to me as a westerner, I just think we should stop sending weapons there and continuing this meat grinder with armament that has our signature on it.

[@user-ij8ex6xr9b]

@CSOB2B your country is smaller smaller every day 🥹

[@TankDada]

Givi was one of the first on the western side that understood what really was going on.

[@mexicoball2529]

If only you were here champion

[@maryhauser6685]

If only he was here...I am from US be was completely derivated.. this conflict has been going on for over 7 year's and .... NOW the world pays attention...As it were something new..?

[@maryhauser6685]

The Last 3 great heros

[@jtorst3789]

@@maryhauser6685 Putin's traitor dogs!!

[@luigiwastaken]

@John The Baptist It's funny because he died in 2017 but I'm watching Azov in 2022 literally annihilate every Russian that comes against them. I say again ... seek mental help.

[@delijeredstarhooligans646]

RIP GIVI 🇷🇸🇷🇺🙏🏻

[@adizle827]

Его гады убили

[@nielserixon4708]

Rest in shit Russian 🤡

[@overcastinggamesxl301]

​@@adizle827 I hate terrorist 😭😭😭

[@m.g9178]

Where i can get the fully interview?

[@e-wf6hd]

Это настоящий герой

[@ratagris21]

Ukraine got what they made of him and rightfully so. RIP Givi!!!

[@kevinc9006]

Givi got what he wanted I guess

[@franzmustermann760]

@@kevinc9006 Ukranians lucky Givi is dead

[@kynanverwimp847]

@@franzmustermann760 Wars aren't won by individuals

[@franzmustermann760]

@@kynanverwimp847 it is won by strong leaders

[@kynanverwimp847]

@@franzmustermann760 cringe

[@desertfalcon6459]

A True Hero no one will match him gave his life depending his people against NATO boots

[@chriscs9080]

a war criminal and a traitor

[@sundancetitan5675]

@@chriscs9080 he deserved to be tried in a court of war

[@user-tf4lk4fm7i]

@@chriscs9080 Defending your homeland isn't a war crime.

[@gnas1897]

@@user-tf4lk4fm7i and it definitely isn't betrayal

[@luigiwastaken]

You misspelled terrorist.

[@user-yf1uo9cr7y]

Светлая вечная память Герою России и Донбасса "Гиви" Михаилу!🙏🙏🙏

[@dgo5929]

Не герой Донбасса, может России но НЕ Донбасса. Мы Украинцы и это шага держава

[@th-td1wl]

@@dgo5929 а кто основал украйна, байден, да? Не Россия? Пришли в ссср толка с Киев, 70% говорят по российски, Михайл за тобом не украински муж?

[@akex6918]

По чарам ада, гребаная татарская Россия Сталина сможет выкурить камышевку с Гитлером

[@akex6918]

Вы все пойдете в могилу детьми, женатыми на скотобойнях.

[@barbosaguzman6101]

​@@dgo5929behave yourself. Ukraine is dangling on a knife edge - don't throw stones in glass houses.

[@actc6077]

A fkn Legend right here!

[@luigiwastaken]

You misspelled terrorist.

[@TGBBP72]

​@@luigiwastakenyou misspelled freedom fighter

[@munkbok]

insha'Allah he has reached Jannah

[@nurdiesge9547]

To clear things up He was for the russian side He is slavic He was 36 He was brave In honor R.i.p

[@dgo5929]

If he is on the russian side why are you supporting him…you dumbass

[@gnas1897]

I don't think he is (fully) Slavic, I'm pretty sure he has Georgian ancestry.

[@SobaYatai]

Bruh he had to go through contract for a reason, blud is Georgian

[@vasili-jy8yb]

@@gnas1897 He had Ukrainian and Ossetian ancestry.

[@kopfstroh]

Ukrainian ancestry doesnt mean anything theyre all slavs​@@vasili-jy8yb

[@francislamalice9804]

RIP Givi, RIP Motorola brat

[@jak0x622]

rest in piss

[@GamesTube80]

What's wrong with Motorola? Not a good phone?

[@denissaliaj9459]

Givi & Motorola are rotting

[@damirdamir1180]

He tortured war prisoners

[@GamesTube80]

@@damirdamir1180 and Ukraine bombed civilians in donbas, seems squared

[@vivaseineldinhdps]

Rest in Peace hero..

[@luigiwastaken]

You misspelled terrorist.

[@TGBBP72]

​@@luigiwastakenyou misspelled freedom fighter

[@jaceksapieja]

Finally you are all going down.

[@cheguevara3392]

YOUR NAME WILL BE REMEMBERED FOREVER.! 👍🏻✊🏻

[@luigiwastaken]

@John The Baptist My dude you just need mental help. Azov is alive and kicking your asses. You'd be shivering in your boots if you were able to watch media that wasn't controlled by your worthless government lol

[@Victor-vn7kv]

Born in Ukraine but a true Russian, RIP my friend

[@Aliengelato]

ah givi smiling down on us from heaven, god bless you

[@lilianthiriet6113]

🤢

[@gabiflorea8753]

Din iad poate.Ucigasii acolo merg.

[@lifesblood100]

rip comrade, respect from turkey

[@gianlucabonetti8426]

A real hero! 💪🏻🇷🇺

[@luigiwastaken]

You misspelled terrorist.

[@TBRACKET]

F

[@tassosplatis2143]

Z

[@mannykhan2753]

Beave soldier rest in peace ma brother

[@justinhasan9155]

Why were And are the bomb manufacturers in Iceland and why did they FUCK up the fiber optics and security log air Canada Justin?????

[@franzmustermann760]

Donbass is finally russian. RIP Givi

[@xycomm5604]

Donbass will always be Ukrainian. Poland didn’t magically become Germany after their invasion. Just like the Donbas won’t be Russian And all the pigs that supported this piece of shit and Russia will all get deported to Russia where they fucking belong. SLAVA UKRAINI

[@agrajyadav2951]

@@xycomm5604 keep eating sht

[@negociosonline40]

Givi o grande herói e sempre será e nunca será esquecido, esses terroristas terão o que merecem.

[@ferdinand8994]

The day has come, i call this war "Givi and Motorola's revenge"

[@user-qj2qh6qx8n]

Царствие небесное тебе человек❤ Сотвори Господи, вечную память Михаилу

[@lobohez7222]

GIVI❤️SLOVAKIA

[@pauldanko5505]

GIVI je premna velky hrdina!!!Skoda, ze som ho nespoznal...odpocivaj v pokoji Misa!!! .

[@jozefmalcek9092]

​@@pauldanko5505 nebodaj sa aktualne nachadzas v Donecku? Ked pises, ze si nemal moznost spoznat ho.

[@shubhamkamble1028]

Is he Russian or ukranian?

[@RegTarg011]

Russian, living in Ukraine.. where mass murders of Russian people are committed weekly, by past 8yrs.

[@kynanverwimp847]

@@RegTarg011 Stop smoking weed bro, it's giving you a psychosis right now.

[@who_is_dis]

So he's Ukrainian - fighting to rejoin Russia - a Separatist. Got killed by a bomb in an office or something 5 years ago. He was known to be kind of a psycho from what i've heard.

[@RegTarg011]

@@who_is_dis he'd cut off fore-arms of mercenaries, who fight for money. And let them live.. I'm sure he should have been much worse, as far as psycho's go.

[@ohnothisguyagain69]

@@RegTarg011 mercenaries deserves it

[@N1ka]

ქართველია ეს ჩემისა?

[@ihaveastoma3869]

да брат, это Гиви. Георгин

[@vladislavfeldman6562]

His fighting culminated in a free Donetsk.

[@baladinbaladin2549]

Merci GIVI MERCI MOTOROLA les enfants du Donbass vous remercie

[@isaakasimov2456]

Das mit dem Sprachfehler lasse ich mir ja noch einreden, aber dass sie ihn auch abgelehnt haben weil er teilweise georgischer Abstammung ist (keine Arier) kann ich mir nur schwer vorstellen.

[@jeremiahmontejo9625]

A war criminal

[@user-qj2qh6qx8n]

Выкинь западные методички и стань человеком

[@jonress8408]

In the dark night we miss the moon

[@pashe620]

Respect гиви from Иран🙏

[@mrblue7655]

Real Human Being .

[@chriscs9080]

lol , he was accused of server executions ... even on camera he would hit and torture prisoners . He was a dickhead and died like a rat , torn into pieces xD .

[@sundancetitan5675]

I mean he abused pows and suddam hussein did the same thing so not really

[@dopecat4012]

@@sundancetitan5675Ukrainians abuse POWs by stabbing them in their eyes, shooting them in the knee caps. Worst he did was slap a few around and made one eat his insignia/patch.

[@rehnedojankekyakarloge5384]

Rest in power, Commander

[@lilianthiriet6113]

Rest in piss givi

[@rehnedojankekyakarloge5384]

@@lilianthiriet6113 fuhrer Zelenskyy's piglet 🐽 spotted, snort more

[@lilianthiriet6113]

@@rehnedojankekyakarloge5384 Who's Kherson 😁

[@rehnedojankekyakarloge5384]

@@lilianthiriet6113 the ukrainians are fearing about the retreat of ruskies as a trap

[@lilianthiriet6113]

@@rehnedojankekyakarloge5384 That's not the flex you think it is

[@lauramolony]

Givi, gone too soon.

[@Normaldude10174]

✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼

[@iiropohjaa5131]

Wow. I watched those people in a early 2015.

[@EyeIn_The_Sky]

That is because the video was posted 5 years ago ROFLOL

[@DTJKS]

Always alive. In OUR hearts.

[@lilianthiriet6113]

You have a pile of ashes in your heart ? 🤣

[@urbandream7051]

Literally a western biased media. Don't show the death or captured video of Ukraine soldier

[@lilianthiriet6113]

Yeah because RT and RIA shows their losses 🙄

[@ikicsinisa2897]

Sad.RIP Givi!

[@SPAZZYok]

Thufferin thuckatash my name's Givi would I lie. lmao

[@Vixctor13]

I'm glad he's gone.

[@TheSavvas1980]

Αρχιδατος μάγκας

[@pacoimeroxvida4404]

Givi got turned into a 10 piece chicken nugget

[@user-qj2qh6qx8n]

Больное воображение ожесточённого и несчастного человека у тебя. Для начала стань человеком.

[@ai97nord94]

Rest in Peace Givi, you're *Truth Hero* .

[@isaakasimov2456]

Naja er ist ein bißchen wie James Dean, wenn du als Idol jung stirbst hat dich jeder als jungen hübschen Mann in Erinnerung. Wenn man sieht wie ein Tony Curtis, oder andere Frauenschwärme alt werden (und die Haare verlieren) dann wird einem (zumindest als Frau) schlecht.

[@alexanderpereyra4746]

Слава Командизр Цби

[@celljr5935]

Back

[@slitherslitherslither2302]

RIP

[@soldierofmisfortune1]

RIP hero

[@luigiwastaken]

You misspelled terrorist.

[@johnwatson122]

Rest in Peace, heroes of Novorossia!

[@parkercushingable]

"you've made me what I am and now you'll get what you've made"

[@xycomm5604]

Says the one who’s supporting an army that can’t even hold it’s one lines HAHAHA You and Russia are a fucking pathetic excuse of a “Joke”

[@vitiatewabbit]

rip

[@DK-gg7ik]

Hero🇷🇺❤️

[@dgo5929]

Hero to Satan

[@user-dl8hh7fq3u]

@@dgo5929 like zelensky that thug Corrupted Facist

[@CaribbeanSlav]

Today marks 7 years since Givi’s death. Слава Гиви☦️🇷🇺

[@lonemarauder140]

He's a pro russian neo nazi fighting againts ukrainian neo nazi, and now, his battalion are fighting againts fellow neo nazis in mariupol, interesting.

[@categories5066]

You use the nazi too losely.

[@rolandF96]

To call a pro-russian NAZI is absurd and ridiculous! Russians have sacrificed everything in the Great Patriotic War against the nazi germans.

[@lonemarauder140]

Roland F, the Americans also sacrifised lots of things to fight againts Nazi germans during WW2, look what happened to them now.

[@rolandF96]

@@lonemarauder140 You cannot compare that. For Soviet Union it was a matter of existence. They have lost over 20 million people. US assured their rise to global power.

[@selimemini4503]

Apo masheff amir matechi amir ramadani dajlin dajes selim

[@Observator1111]

So he tried joining azov?

[@user-yc5bh6rd6s]

, Actually, he fought against azov

[@user-ri5xy5wl4c]

Когда украина начала бомбить свои мирные города Гиви встал против своей страны, за Донбасс.

[@user-by1rh8mn9z]

Я Каблучкова Оксана

[@frogger___9127]

Rest in Peace.

[@titocardoso6193]

Givi não morreu

[@sjk9429]

Miss u brother ukraine is burning for ur vengeance 🎉

[@Beca07777]

What does he mean by having a speech impediment?

[@sealifett8395]

Lisp

[@Beca07777]

@@sealifett8395 I thought it was because he spoke Russian and not Ukrainian or something like that

[@drcoffee8872]

Abuse POWs then get smoked!

[@FidelisRaven]

A criminal who got blown up by competition in his own ranks.

[@gnas1897]

Ah yes, because the DPR yeets rockets into their offices every other day

[@heybabycometobutthead]

Resp in thpreeese

[@talikalaman]

😂😂😂😂

[@franzmustermann760]

RIP GIVI! A real hero. On the same level as Che Guevara, Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro, Zhambyl Tulaev and so on

[@luigiwastaken]

You misspelled terrorist.

[@ai97nord94]

He is the Donestk Hero, just asked Donbass people about him and you got the answer

[@nmdgks]

Rest in Power Commander

[@KusherCZE]

😁 RIH

[@turtlesarecool1488]

GOAT

[@cathaneisdying]

How ironic is this lmfao... he looks a lot like Zelensky.

[@ablorenz]

Unlike Zelenskkky, he was an actual human with feelings. He fought for his people and died as a hero. No fear. The Jewish comedian does the exact opposite.

[@static2223]

@@ablorenz he was a extremist maniac and putin shill

[@kurteisner67]

@@ablorenz Unlike Zelenskyy, Givi was actually a Nazi, coke addict and criminal. Lol, a neonazi rejected from Azov for a speech impediment joining Somalia Battalion and murdering his own people for the Orcs in revenge, you couldn't make up such a story. Givi died as fertiliser hated by everyone with a heart and human emotions. He fought as merc for genocidal maniacs to get back at the humiliation he endured due to his own idiocy.

[@kirillignatov3945]

@@kurteisner67 you just described Zelensky

[@kurteisner67]

@@kirillignatov3945 ^ what watching R1 for fourty hours a day does to a mf. "Русский мир", not even once.

[@vanhelzing7407]

соболезнования от Болгарии славному полководцу Гиви

[@raffiboy1234]

well its about time if u ask me.

[@franzmustermann760]

now its time

[@MrBOSTJAN90]

SLAVA UKRAYINI ZA RODINU!

[@desertfalcon6459]

Off US puppet

[@pauldanko5505]

Slava Donbas...,Slava GIVY @!!

[@abysscrawlerz8648]

Земля пухом ему.

[@kimrosen8432]

Givi was gay like all the russians. Slavia Ukrainia! Long live Da Vinci

[@latviesulegionars8806]

God bless

[@haisesasaki4645]

Where are the wolves now ?

[@lincolnwikipedia4218]

1 piece of shit is gone there is more to come

[@Alexander-Kurtz]

He died like a man, while ooze like you lives like a dog.....

[@iwantputinsbabies1313]

go fight then Mr big Bollox COWARD

[@djmorley718]

Ding dong the witch is dead

[@Aliengelato]

where are you little man

[@Aliengelato]

ill find you

[@user-mt8vp7pi5u]

@@Aliengelato not worth it his judgement will come brother

[@juancenobio2713]

Commandante Givi

[@JohnSmith-ze1ft]

Hero RIP......... αθάνατος !!

[@onlything.6276]

If he has a passport he can join any military division in Ukraine

[@sjtv6565]

Mikhail Tolstykh is long dead. He led a separatist faction after breaking off from the regular Ukraine military and was designated a terrorist by both the Ukraine and Russians. They rocketed his office while he wrote notes

[@_Aleen_]

@@sjtv6565 how was his body found ? Because in an explosion like that his body might have been in a bad situation

[@YNGMZoeRalph]

@@_Aleen_ type it in you’ll see how everything was burnt in his office lol

[@_Aleen_]

@@YNGMZoeRalph Thanks . i didn’t know there is a real footage

[@StayBasedJesus]

Търпение Братошки ! Скоро ще има свобода за Донбасс! 🫡 GIVI 🇧🇬♥️🇷🇺

[@dosed92]

Russians are Aryans? Waaaaatt??? Hahaha

[@thelentm]

@Samuel Cleife Lmao, you say that not even being a Ukrainian and just listening to Russian propoganda. You did not research anything, you just put random shit in your mind, how blind people are, oh God...

[@B_B463]

He’s referring to the Ukrainian military. But what he says is absurd nonsense. A speech impediment is a valid reason to deny somebody for enlistment but it has nothing to do with racial purity in an ethnic diverse country such as Ukraine.

[@arifahmedkhan9999]

Well they are Indo-Europeans, just not indo-aryans. But he is talking about the Ukrainians calling him impure

[@kurvitaschthedictator]

azov battalion moment

[@mileschristus8861]

@@B_B463 Ukraine is as ethnically diverse as Sweden (if u don't count the migrants), so no, it is not ethnically diverse. Second, he is joking about Ukrainians being nazis, and although he is willingly exaggerating, he has still a point: Ukraine is swarmed by neo-nazi movements, they have a lot of influence and lots of their members are in politics, the army, high command positions, etc. Not to mention that Ukraine has a dark chapter of it's history, during ww2, where Ukrainians openly cooperated with nazis in massacring jews/gypsies + ethnic Russians (Ukrainians and Russians are basically the same people, just that Ukrainians got kinda separated from Russia, as they were historically occupied by the Kingdom of Lithuania). So yeah, his words make sense. As for his speech impediment, I agree, however to an extent, he still coyld talk and communicate very well, he just had some pronunciation issues with the R sound, nothing more, and he could make himself clearly understood. This video from this delusional channel is a clear attempt at mocking his character and the reasons for why he fought, the reality is that Givi saw the horrors of the Ukrainian army on his people and decided to fight against them, then his political views came second, but this is first. In this video, trying to make it look as if this is why he joined the "rebels", this pathetic channel, wich is already laughable in of itself, has made itself look even worse than it usually does. Dishonouring a fighter like this, if he was syrian and fought against Assad they'd be praising him, even tho they both basically fight for equally valid reasons, why? Cuz he doesn't fit the western/NATO narrative. Sad world we live in

[@jaceksapieja]

Where is he now ? HAHAHAAHAHAH

[@iwantputinsbabies1313]

where is NATO or Ukraine army haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[@damirdamir1180]

@@iwantputinsbabies1313 I give you 1kg of toilet paper for a million rubles, OK?

[@amirshelby]

@@damirdamir1180 haha Nice joke Just look at the value of Rubles again LooooL🤣🤣

[@xi8918]

@@iwantputinsbabies1313 Dude if I was you I would delete your comment because the longer it's posted, the more ashamed you are. Russia was able to lose a ship fighting in Ukraine and you are still acting like Russia is winning, lol

[@xi8918]

@John The Baptist 70%, dude maybe you are looking at the map of the Soviet Union

[@D0pamine.3091]

bruh, if Give would still alive in these days, probably he were kicking ukrainian asses rfn 😆

[@broodleider]

Rest in russian glory 😢😔😔😔

[@luigiwastaken]

Rusted out 65 year old equipment failing, getting stuck in the mud, generals dying left and right ... you guys have extremely low standards for what you consider glory. Makes sense considering you still live in the soviet equivalent of mud huts you fuckin baboons 🤣🤣

[@lilianthiriet6113]

Russian glory is being transformed in human bacon for being a retarded separatist ?

[@user-lt5mi2dl8w]

Молодец, кумир России

[@letsgobrandon7297]

Probably because Aryans are the smartest elite people, but you were too Givi...rip.

[@Cotac_Rastic]

​@rn3631 I don't think soviet bullets cared for their supposed superiority lmao

[@gggzgsg]

SLAVA NOVOROSSIYA

[@lilianthiriet6113]

How is the project going ?

[@ai97nord94]

Still ongoing..

[@lestweforgotindians8096]

Indo aryan 🕉🚩

[@jtdjo3545]

Rest in peace lion, may your spirit guide us to win

[@sanchorus3459]

Царствие тебе Небесное герой нашего времени! Тебя никогда не забудут!

[@l.st.6445]

Slava Ukraine!

[@trippytrellzs9972]

RIP