Yuri Gennadevich Gorupa callsign Khmel born on May 3, 1986 from Brest, Belarus. Many people have the illusion that alcohol and drugs can help in a stressful situation. 37-year-old volunteer Yuri Gorupa is addicted to both. Yuri had a criminal record, worked in Poland, was married to a Russian woman. He was not interested in politics, did not serve in the army. He studied to be a zootechnician at the Pinsk Agricultural College. Upon completion, he had to work off his assignment. After working for a month for a meager salary, he went to Poland as a migrant worker. There he worked on a construction site. Gorupa was detained when he visited his homeland. He was sentenced to three years of prison. He served his sentence in Pinsk where he cut trees. Yuri tried to escape from the prison, but he was caught at the border and given 2.5 years in prison. He was released in 2010 and went to Poland. In Poland, he met a girl from the Moscow region. He got married, but the marriage was short-lived; in 2013, the couple separated. In Ukraine, Yuriy married for the second time. He has a daughter. The family lives in Khmelnitsky. Yuri has been fighting for Ukraine since 2014. He came from Poland immediately after the liberation of Crimea together with a friend who served in the French Foreign Legion. He wanted to enlist in the Aidar battalion, but was rejected due to lack of military experience. Then he joined the Right Sector and went through its training. He served with Pavel "Volat" Suslov and Konstantin "Phoenix" Dyubaylo. When the war began, he joined the Belarusian company at Azov, from which the Kalinovsky Regiment was formed. On April 22, 2022, he was seriously injured in the Nikolaev region. A fragment entered the abdomen through the thigh, damaging internal organs. The injured arm has still not recovered. Yuri suffered a concussion and is now deaf in one ear. Upon recovering from injury, he joined the Litvin Battalion of the Kalinovsky Regiment and became an artilleryman. Yuri left the Kalinovsky Regiment at the end of 2022, as he “did not get along with the leadership.” Since February 3, 2023, Gorupa has served as a mortar platoon commander in the Second International Legion. His fellow soldiers were also Belarusians. In the unit, Yuri's alcohol addiction became more acute. Yuri left the Second International Legion in August 2023. On January, 2024, he was seized with 300 grams of Alpha-PVP. It turned out that the money he had spent on buying drugs, his “brothers” had collected for his treatment. But Yuri sat and thought and decided that 6K dollars could be the amount to start a startup. Now Yuri will serve his time in Ukraine, maybe cut trees again. It is pity that Ukraine does not give much for illegal drug possession, just 5-8 years. *Boost us to help us unlock "Dirty Rats" emojis for our channel. https://t.center/TrackAMerc?boost