“Atonic coma”
The death of Igor Mangushev with the call sign “Bereg”, commander of the LNR “Merkats” People’s Militia unit, was reported to RIA Novosti by his friend, musician and war correspondent Akim Apachev.
“He died. Yesterday, together with his wife Tatyana, I visited Igor in the hospital. The doctors said that “Shore” is in an atonic coma. As they explained to me, this is the final stage of the coma. The bullet itself pierced the center of the brain, went a long way. As a result, in the brain “Bereg” really wanted to survive, but he had no chance anymore,” said Apachev.
He explained that Mangushev never regained consciousness in the hospital. According to him, the case was transferred to the Investigative Committee, and there “everything is clear” – “it is known who did this.”
The death of “Bereg” was confirmed by the author of the Telegram channel “Prizrak Novorossia” Vladimir Grubnik and military commander Yuri Kotenok.
“Today, 08/02/23 at 6:12, Igor Mangushev, call Bereg, died,” says Grubnik’s channel.
Shot at close range
On February 4, it became known that Mangushev was seriously wounded in the head with a short-barreled gun, after which he was taken to the neurosurgeon of the city of Stakhanov. His friend Apachev later told RIA Novosti that he had known Bereg for a long time and was “shocked” by what had happened.
“Now “Bereg” was handed over to Stakhanov’s neurosurgeon with a blunt gunshot wound to the head. At the moment, according to information from doctors, his condition is stable and serious, there is a negative trend, “he said.
According to him, Mangushev was allegedly shot at close range with a nine-millimeter pistol. The shot hit the occipito-parietal region.
According to media reports, Mangushev was wounded in the rear of Russian troops in Stakhanov. His wife confirmed that it was fired at close range and the bullet lodged in the head.
Several Telegram channels reported that Mangushev recently collaborated with businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin and his co-founder Wagner PMC.
Who is “the beach”?
According to Kommersant, Mangushev was the commander of the anti-drone unit of the LPR People’s Militia. And volunteer Vladimir Grubnik named him the captain of the 4th brigade of the 2nd Army Corps of the 8th Army of the Russian Armed Forces, the commander of a detachment to combat UAVs.
After it was decided that the lands of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics should become part of the Russian Federation, the military forces of the DPR and LPR became part of the Russian army.
Mangushev has been participating in conflicts in the Donbass since 2014. In addition, he runs his own Telegram channel “Notes of an Adventurer” (about 55,000 subscribers) and calls himself a political strategist.
“Bereg” is also considered the co-founder of the private military company “ENOT”. – “United People’s Communal Societies” – participated in the battles in the DPR and LPR. But in Russia, this organization was considered a criminal society, and in 2018 a large number of criminal cases were opened against its members.
In August 2022, Mangushev became even more famous when he allegedly brought a human skull to the stage during a performance in Donetsk. According to his own assurances, it was the skull of a murdered Ukrainian soldier defending Azovstal. At the same time, Bereg declared a “war” “with the idea that Ukraine is an anti-Russian state” and called for the “destruction” of aircraft carriers.
It is also believed that Mangushev is one of the leaders of the Bright Russian association, whose members search for the places of residence of immigrants in Moscow and pass information about them to law enforcement agencies.