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“Every person who came to Da Vinci was given everything they needed to work comfortably – from bulletproof vests and helmets to personal hygiene products… Da Vinci always said that you have to prepare for the worst.” “What surprised me was that every single one of Da Vinci’s positions were fully equipped for a full-scale battle – there were all weapons imaginable,” Pavlo said, comparing the conditions to some of the official units in the Ukrainian army that were undersupplied at the time. Pavlo said that Kotsiubailo “never sent his soldiers into battle alone while sitting it out,” only sending to the front line those who were prepared. After immigrating to Ukraine in 2017, Pavlo spent two months fighting with the Da Vinci Wolves in Donbas before joining the Azov regiment.

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He asked to conceal his full name citing fear for the security of his family, who are still back in dictator-ruled Belarus.

“Back then, he was a year younger than me, yet he had the authority, and always went into the battle himself,” a 28-year-old soldier Pavlo, who goes by nom de guarre “Belarussian” because of his origins, told the Kyiv Independent. Kotsiubailo, who was awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine in 2021, was killed near Bakhmut on March 7, 2023. Dmytro “Da Vinci” Kotsiubailo, commander of the First Motorized Battalion “Da Vinci Wolves,” looks over the shoulder of an aerial reconnaissance drone operator in Kherson Oblast in March of 2022.