The Ukrainian and Russian services of Radio Liberty identified the Russian military man and his wife, who, in a telephone conversation, "

Journalists received Russian numbers from sources in law enforcement agencies, to which they called each other. By these numbers they found their pages in the Russian network " The page of Bykovsky himself is closed to outside visitors.

The Russian soldier's name is Roman Bykovsky. Previously, he served in the regiment of the National Guard and published photos with fellow soldiers from the city of Balashikha in the Moscow region. With the start of a full-scale war in 2022, he participated in the capture of the Kherson region. His wife, Olga Bykovskaya (nee Pinyasova), lives in the occupied Crimea and is raising their son there..

Both come from the Oryol region of the Russian Federation. On the pages of "

On the page, Bykowska indicated her life credo as follows - " That's when everything will be fine"

In 2017, a photo of a baby stroller appeared on the page of a Russian woman, which indicates the birth of their child..

The journalists also identified the unit in which Bykovsky serves through a photo of his friends on Vkontakte.. On the chevrons of his brothers in service, it can be seen that this is the Special Operations Division named after. Dzerzhinsky. This unit is considered an elite unit of the National Guard.

Journalists managed to find ads that were published by the spouses in the Avito ad network. They have been posting ads in Feodosia since 2018, and Roman’s mother has been posting photos with her grandson from the center of Feodosia.

It looks like the Bykovsky family still lives in the Crimea. For example, on January 19, 2022, Olga complained in the comments that she could not get an appointment with a local cosmetologist in Feodosia, and on February 13, she responded to a call to help a dog that was hit by a car in the center of this city with money for an operation..

After 2019, photographs began to appear on the pages of Bykovsky and his mother, indicating the signing of a contract with the Russian army.. The journalists managed to establish that Bykovsky, apparently, signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation no later than February 2018.

The investigative group Conflict Intelligence Team helped to find out where Bykovsky served - by the emblem on the chevron. This is the 108th Guards Air Assault Kuban Cossack Regiment of the Order of the Red Star (108 dshp). This regiment participated in the operation for the Russian occupation of Crimea in 2014.

Russian journalist of Radio Liberty Mark Krotov called both Roman and Olga Bykovskaya. Roman objected that this was his voice on the SBU tapes, and also said that he was in the hospital with a wound in Sevastopol. However, according to journalists, his voice is very similar to the voice from the SBU tapes..

Olga Bykovskaya confirmed in a conversation with Krotov that her husband was being treated in a hospital in Sevastopol, as he was injured. After that, the Russian woman hung up and stopped answering calls.. Since April 13, her page on Vkontakte is no longer there, that is, she probably deleted it after talking with a journalist.