10.04.2009 23:20 | He died defending the peace

Ahsar Kelehsaev (born in 1966) is one more peacemaker killed by Georgian aggressors.

Ahsar began to serve in peace-making forces of RNO-Alania in 2004. He was the gunner. For the conscientious work he was awarded by battalion command. Earlier he used to work as a mechanic at knitting factory of Tskhinval.

Ahsar died of severe wound, which he received confronting the Georgian aggression on August, 9 at village Tbet.

Ahsar`s mother, Nazi Turmanova-Kelehsaeva is going haywire with grief.

“When the aggression just began I left for Beslan together with Ahsar`s daughters to see my sister.  -  The mother tells. – I was very worried about my son who had been carrying out his service since the first day of Georgian attack.

We could not get in touch with him. I didn’t know where he had been and what’s happened to him. I couldn't sleep a wink the nights, my hart was with him.

There were a telecast about Ardon hospital at local TV and suddenly I saw my son among the wounded, who were taken there from Tskhinval. When I came to the hospital to see him, he was covered in bandages and could scarcely speak”.

It is known that on August, 9 they left Dzau for Tskhinval. On their way to Tbet village they draw heavy fire. The fight began an Ahsar received wounds in result of it. He spent in Arnon hospital several days, but the doctors did not manage to save Ahsar`s life. HediedonAugust, 31.

He was a grand family man, together with his wife they brought up three daughters: 17 year-old twins and 2-year-old baby. “Аhsar had so many plans. He was the sheet-anchor of his family’s life. He wanted to do so much for his daughters. He was going to celebrate the Wedding of one of his twins in the autumn”, - the mother says with the tears in her eyes.

Alas! The Georgian aggressors didn’t let his plans materialize.

Ahsar Kelehsaev was buried in Zguderskoye cemetery.

Translated by Tatiana Inozemtseva