The famous clip showing Somali Battalion commander Mikhail «Givi» Tolstykh taking an interview from Novorossiya T.V. while Ukrainian Grads land nearby. This was filmed 5 Oct 2014. An ethnic Georgian, Givi grew up in Illovaisk (born 1980), and attended school there. Upon graduation, he took compulsory military service in the Ukrainian army from 1998 to 2000, and wanted to continue but was denied due to his speech impediment. He joined the rebels early on in the conflict, though how exactly he cam