Mezue ahịrịokwu a: N'ọnwa Ọgọstụ 2014 ndị otu brigade lụrụ ọgụ na
Agha nke Ilovaisk. N'ụbọchị 26 n'ọnwa Ọgọstụ, ndị otu ndị agha nke 8th Mountain Brigade na ndị otu 31st Air Assault Brigade nọ n'akụkụ obodo Mnohopillya. E jidere ndị agha abụọ nke 31st Brigade: Ruslan Akhmetov na Arseniy Ilmitov. N'oge a na-agba mbọ ịzọpụta ha, ndị ọzọ so n'Òtù Ndị Agha nke 31 wakporo ha. Nikolai Kozlov, onye parachute nke sonyere na iweghara ụlọ omebe iwu nke Crimea na February, tụfuru ụkwụ ya n'ọnyà ahụ. Mgbe mgbasa ozi "RBK" nke Russia bipụtara nyocha ebe o chere na Akhmetov na Ilmitov nwụrụ n'agha nke Ilovaisk, mgbasa ozi "Lifenews" a ma ama mere akụkọ TV, ebe ọ gara n'ogige ndị agha na Ulyanovsk ma gwa ma Akhmetov na Ilmitov okwu na-egosi na ha dị ndụ ma bụrụ ndị ọrụ agha nke ndị agha Russia.