Spetsnaz Officer - Major

Unit: "Vityaz" Unit, 604th Special Purpose Center

Call Sign: "Irtysh" (Иртыш)

Cargo ID: #325

Full Name: Leonid Alekseevich Makhonin

Russian Name: Махонин Леонид Алексеевич

Education: Omsk Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (Graduated 2006)

Date of Birth: June 28, 1984 (age: 37 years)

Place of Birth: Souskanovo Village, Tarsky District, Omsk Region, Russia

Date of Death: February 27, 2022

Place of Death: Hostomel Airport, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

Awarded: Order of Courage (ph.), others under investigation

Previously Deployed: Chechnya (North Caucasus), Syria

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"Forces of the 604th Special Purpose Centre are focused on rural actions and operations, such as liquidation of terrorist cells and heavy raids. However, large scale counterterrorism operations usually involve SOBR, spetsnaz, OMON and FSB units due to the large personnel demands."

Leonid Alekseevich left a wife and two children in Balashikha - eleven-year-old Yegor and five-year-old Platon.

The widow and sons of Leonid Makhonin, an Officer at the Vityaz Special Purpose Center, were invited to Novo-Ogarevo for a meeting with a Vladimir Putin...
...A President of Russia has already met with the son of the holder of the Order of Courage Leonid Makhonin, Yegor.

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