Career
He was the leader of the pro-Russian Prizrak Brigade. Born in Nizhnyaya Duvanka, Svatove Raion, Mozgovoy lived in its administrative center Svatove where he participated in a local choir "Svatove Cossacks". Just before the "Russian Spring" in Ukraine, Mozgovoy (according to Espresotv) was a gastarbeiter in Saint St. Petersburg supposedly as a cook.
During the conflict in eastern Ukraine in 2014, he became commander of the military formation "Prizrak" (Ghost).
Unofficially his armed group is known as the "Antratsyt Cossacks". Mozgovoy was allied with rebels Defense Minister, Igor Girkin, and had a reputation for infighting with other Luhansk People"s Republic rebels.
Mozgovoy was known for his contacts with leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, and leader of A Just Russia, Sergei Mironov. Mozgovoy was killed in an ambush between Luhansk and Alchevsk, deep behind the frontline, together with his press secretary, driver, and six bodyguards.
Following a roadside bombing, his motorcade was fired upon by machine guns.
The LPR press service attributed the attack to undefined "saboteurs". While the adviser to Ukrainian Minister of MVS, Anton Gerashchenko, stated he was assassinated by Russian GRU special forces, citing supposed radio communications.He survived an identical attack two months prior to his death and was dismissive of threats to his life
In October 2014 he headed a "people"s court" that produced a death sentence against a suspect accused of rape by asking the audience to raise hands. Answering questions from the audience afterwards, Mozgovoy said that he ordered his patrols to "arrest any woman found sitting in a public or cafe".
After the statement caused significant critical response in Russian media, he had to explain that he said that because he thought that women "should care about their safety", that the intention of the statement was to make people think about morals and that he was not going to arrest anyone.
The statement that caused the controversy was:
If tomorrow I see in a cafe, in a public even one young lady, she will be arrested. А woman should be the guardian of the hearth, the mother.
And what kind of mothers do they become after pubs?. A woman should stay in the house baking pirozhki and only celebrate on the International Women"s Day.
lieutenant is time to remember that you are Russian! lieutenant is time to get your spirituality back!.