Mysterious, legendary, charismatic commander of the Gorlovka militia detachment. This is the laconic characterization of Lieutenant Colonel Igor Nikolaevich Bezler.
There are legends about Igor Nikolaevich Bezler, and at the same time, information about the military leader of the DPR is very sparse.
Biography
From official sources, you can find out that the warrior's homeland is Simferopol, where Igor Bezler was born in 1965, on December 30th. Igor spent his childhood and youth in his native Crimea. The family was international - my father had German roots, and my mother was Ukrainian. Almost nothing is known about the personal life of the glorious officer, except that the name of his wife is Angelica.
The surname "Bezler" gave the call sign to Igor Nikolaevich, under which he fought in the eighties of the 20th century in the ranks of the Soviet group of armed forces in Afghanistan. It translates as "Bes". So this heroic man became known among the army people.
Military career
It is known that Igor Bezler received a special education from the famous Felix Dzerzhinsky Military Academy in Moscow. Years of study - from 1994 to 1997. From the army, Igor Nikolaevich retired to the reserve with the rank of lieutenant colonel. The resignation was followed by a return to his native land, to Ukraine.
Obtaining Ukrainian citizenship was limited to a residence permit. The place of work of the retired lieutenant colonel was the Gorlovka machine plant, where he was involved in the organization of security and safety. It is known that after working as the head of the security unit, Bezler left for an enterprise providing funeral services, where he worked until 2012. This dismissal was based on a conflict situation with the authorities of Gorlovka in the person of the mayor Yevgeny Klep.
Igor Bezler has always been an authority for those who served and serves in the landing. The Horlivka paratrooper organization conducted its work under his leadership.
Ukrainian conflict
The events that developed rapidly in Ukraine in the tenths did not go without the participation of Igor Bezler. The Ukrainian Security Service still classifies the rebel lieutenant colonel as a professional Russian saboteur. The Ukrainian authorities claim to be aware of Igor Bezler's leadership of the military operations to seize the administrative buildings of Horlivka when the active phase of the southeastern Ukrainian conflict in 2014 took place.
The elusive and highly professional Bezler was dangerous to the authority of the Ukrainian authorities, he was put on the wanted list on the territory of Ukraine, motivating this fact with his Ukrainian citizenship. However, Igor Bezler responded to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine with a statement that his citizenship is the Russian Federation and that he is connected with Ukraine only by the right of a residence permit, which he has had since 2003.
It is known that the hostilities that took place in the southeast of Ukraine were often spontaneous. The Bes' combat unit conducted independent operations and did not obey the leadership of the DPR. This was officially announced by the Prime Minister of the DPR Alexander Borodai. However, in the summer of 2014, the DPR website denied this information. In the fall of 2014, Igor Nikolaevich Bezler received the honorary title of Major General of the Donetsk Republic.
