Belgorod soldier killed near Avdiivka

Junior Sergeant Artyom Ayupov, a 37-year-old from Belgorod, has been killed in the war in Ukraine. His death, reported by the 'Pepel' news outlet, occurred on October 22, 2024, near Avdiivka in the Donetsk region. He is officially the 1300th soldier from the Belgorod region to be killed, though the outlet's total count of regional dead stands at 2,645. The announcement was made via a post on a local kindergarten's VKontakte page, highlighting the war's ongoing human toll.