"It’s become almost commonplace recently for Ukrainian drone operators to target these [evacuation] teams upon seeing wounded [Russian servicemen] being evacuated. According to him, employees of the Emergencies Ministry and other special services are also regularly targeted by Ukrainian drones. The soldier with the call sign Chekh was born in the Czech Republic in 1973. In 2014, he came to the Donetsk People's Republic, where he fought for four years as part of the local militia forces against Ukrainian troops. In the Czech Republic, he was sentenced in absentia to 21 years in prison for participating in the events in Donbass, found guilty on terrorism charges.