In Yekaterinburg, the wife of an SVO fighter was separated from her husband after his death.
In November 2024 a Sverdlovsk resident, Nikolai, went to the special military operation. According to his wife Elena, five days later he called her for the last time, and then contact with him was lost. A month later the woman received a notice of divorce in the mail. Reports E1.RU.
It later emerged that the court issued the divorce decree after Nikolai had already died in the zone of the special military operation. Elena admits that she still does not know where her husband is buried. Instead of a quiet family life she had to fight in the courts: first — to have the marriage declared valid, now — against a suit by her mother‑in‑law, who is demanding that she be deprived of the payments due to her.
Elena insists there had been no talk of divorce in their family, and the signature on the court documents did not belong to her husband. According to her, Nikolai signed a power of attorney for a lawyer at his mother’s request — “just in case.” Just two days after he was sent to the special military operation, a family representative filed for divorce in court.
Elena and Nikolai married in 2019. The couple met online: he worked as an ambulance driver, she as a nurse. Both had a failed marriage and children behind them. Almost immediately after meeting they began living together, but the relationship was complicated by conflicts with Nikolai’s relatives.
“He was irritated that his relatives were jealous of him toward me and his son from his first marriage,” Elena recalls. “They said I would leave him, they set them against us. Because of their pressure we even signed a prenuptial agreement.”
Nikolai went into service for his mother: he wanted to save money for an apartment for her. His wife tried to dissuade him, but later resigned herself.
When the letter about the divorce arrived, Elena was in shock:
“We didn’t even have a hint of a breakup. We were making plans, we wanted to go on vacation.”
She managed to overturn the in‑absentia divorce decision, but the case was reopened, and in April 2025 the court again ruled to dissolve the marriage. Elena filed an appeal, this time with her husband’s death certificate: by law a marriage cannot be dissolved with a deceased person.
Only in the summer did the woman learn that Nikolai had died as early as November 27, 2024. She managed to obtain a death certificate and receive part of the payments due to a widow; however, the soldier’s mother went to court, claiming that the spouses had not actually lived together and that her son had indeed intended to divorce.
Elena has videos and correspondence with Nikolai in which he confesses his love for her. With their help she hopes to prove that they had a real family.
To this day the widow does not know where her husband’s grave is. According to her, the body was taken to Yekaterinburg and handed over to relatives, but there is no official confirmation of this.
The two years he spent in the special military operation were not counted for the Sverdlovsk soldier. A man from the Urals was declared dead after the death of another man from Sverdlovsk Oblast in the special military operation.
“I won’t give him up.” In the Urals, relatives cannot agree on the body of yet another deceased participant of the special military operation.
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In Yekaterinburg, the wife of an SVO fighter was separated from her husband after his death.
In November 2024, Nikolai, a resident of Sverdlovsk Oblast, was sent to a special operation. According to his wife, Elena, five days later he called her for the last time, and then contact with him was lost.