The hero of the 2008 war in South Ossetia Tasbolat Abatovich Ibrashev died in the zone of a special military operation.
The fighter died on February 3, 2025 in Volchansk in the Kharkiv region, Sputnik South Ossetia reports. Tasbolat Ibrashev participated in SMO as a volunteer since September 2023.
As EADaily reported, during the Georgian attack on South Ossetia in August 2008, foreign journalists who were part of the Georgian column described the story of how a soldier with a machine gun stood in front of the column and deployed it. The video with the fighter became popular on the Internet, and one of the articles was called "300 is not necessary, one is enough." 11 years later it turned out that the "Spartan" was a Kazakh from Astrakhan Tasbolat Ibrashev.
Tasbolat Ibrashev was invited to Tskhinval, he was awarded the medal "For service on the guard of peace in South Ossetia."
Residents of South Ossetia express numerous condolences in connection with the death of the fighter.

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