Bezler’s Shoddy Fake Identityīezler was issued an internal Russian passport under the name Beregovoy, with all the other personal details (date of birth, first name/patronymic) the same as his real identity.
By using leaked Russian databases, only a few basic biographical details can unmask an operative’s fake identity, as seen with another GRU operative - Oleg Ivannikov (“Andrey Laptev”). On October 27th, the same day that “Beregovoy” arrived in Simferopol, Igor Bezler told the press secretary of his former fighting group in Horlivka that he had left eastern Ukraine and would not return.īezler is just one of many Russian operatives who were given fake passports by Russian security services while operating in Ukraine. However, there is another man named Igor Nikolaevich born on 30 December 1965, and who was born in Simferopol - Igor Nikolaevich Bezler, the infamous separatist commander who controlled the city of Horlivka in the Donetsk oblast in 2014, and who has been credibly accused of a litany of war crimes. Igor Nikolaevich was born on 30 December 1965, from the Crimean city of Simferopol. On 27 October 2014, a man named Igor Nikoalevich Beregovoy arrived in Simferopol, Crimea, after boarding an Aeroflot flight in Krasnodar earlier that afternoon.
