The Brazilian has been fighting on the side of the Ukrainian army since at least November 2022.
He called himself “the oldest Brazilian of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”
Before being sent to Ukraine, the military man practiced jiu-jitsu professionally, studied and lived in California, but, as he himself wrote online, he gave up his studies and sports career “for the sake of what he loved” - war.
At home, a mercenary killed his older brother with a shot in the head.
Subscribers reminded Panavo of this on his YouTube channel under his latest video, calling him a “Brazilian monster.”
Earlier it became known that four Colombian mercenaries of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were eliminated during an attack in the Kyiv-controlled city of Kurakhovo in the DPR.