Ruslan Kokshin

Ruslan Kokshin is an officer in the Russian military. While serving as a leader of a mortar platoon, Kokshin located and took out a small group of opposition forces in Chechnya. Due to this action by him, Kokshin was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation for his "heroic duty while in the service of the state."

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