Tesak's comrade-in-arms, who was sentenced to 16 years in prison for double murder a year ago, died near Avdiivka
Neo-Nazi Maxim Aristarkhov, an associate of Maxim Martsinkevich, known as Tesak, was killed in battles near Avdiivka in the annexed DPR. This was reported by Regnum, citing a source; the information was confirmed to the publication by the deceased's sister, Anastasia. "They are looking for the body and cannot find it. We searched for a long time ourselves, because he stopped communicating. His fellow soldiers, who were in the unit with him, said that a cluster munition had landed on them.