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[b]Name:[/b]
Yekaterina Fedorovna Belyayeva

[b]Age:[/b]
31

[b]Nationality:[/b]
Russian

[b]Service Record:[/b]
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[*]58th Combined Arms Army (1996 - 2000)[list]
[*]1999: War of Dagestan
[*]2000: Second Chechen War
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[*]3rd Guards Spetsnaz Brigade (2000 - 2003)[list]
[*]2000: Kosovo
[*]2001 - 2003: Second Chechen War
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[b]MO:[/b]
Breacher. Close-quarters fighting in Chechnya, especially the Battle of Grozny, first brought the problems of clearing structures into her mind. After joining the army, she knew she might one day find herself in the middle of such conditions. The last reason was learning that extra qualifications raised the likelyhood of being admitted to special forces training were she to pursue that path. Trained in mechanical, ballistic and explosive breaching.

[b]Infiltration Method:[/b]
She was flown to Upington, South Africa, and continued into Matanbai by a hired truck, posing as a humanitarian worker documenting the impact of the current conditions on the people of Matanbai.

[b]Kit:[/b]
GSh-18 + 2 magazines, Halligan bar.

[b]History:[/b]
Born and raised in Saratov, she enrolled in the Moscow State Linguistic University School of Translation and Interpretation at 18, focusing on English and German and graduated in 1996. When the First Chechen War flared up during her time there, she signed on for a reserve training program offered by the university, which eventually convinced her to join the Russian Armed Forces after graduation, ending up as a rifleman in a motorized infantry regiment.

The first years of her service were uneventful. Her first deployment occured in the War of Dagestan. Following its conclusion and return to Russia, she volunteered for a breacher course in late 1999 before the expected deployment to Chechnya. She applied for Spetsnaz in mid 2000 during R&R back in Russia, and was acepted on account of breaching training, language qualifications (English C1, German B1), driving qualification (A1, B, BE, C and CE categories), recommendation from former company commander and university education.

After passing the entry test, she was assigned to 3rd Guards Spetsnaz Brigade based in Tolyatti, and after a brief time on a peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, she returned to Chechnya for counterinsurgency operations in 2001. Promoted to Senior Sergeant in 2003, taking the role of platoon sergeant. Later that year, a controlled detonation of an insurgent munitions cache went awry and swept away a not-insignificant portion of a close by village, leading to casualties among a different Spetsnaz team. Although she avoided a negligent manslaughter charge, as her squad didn't have an explosive ordnance specialist and therefore shouldn’t have been ordered to carry out such a task in the first place, five soldiers and a dozen Chechnyans were dead and some god forsaken hole that wasn't even on a map was for all intents and purposes actually erased from existence. Kremlin sent her to Matanbai to get her out of sight, judging chances of success to be minimal, thus considering the question of what to do with her solved.
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