In the Kursk region, a Serbian mercenary, previously deported from Romania for espionage on behalf of Russia, was likely killed.

This is reported by the Romanian Digi24, referencing Russian and Serbian publications.

Meanwhile, on the Serbian's Facebook page, a statement from his deputy Zoran Andreevich was shared. In it, he claimed that the death of Zhivkovich has not been confirmed and urged people to refrain from spreading news about it.

According to journalists, Zhivkovich has been fighting against Ukraine since 2014. In 2017, he was deemed a national security threat in Romania and was banned from entering the country for 15 years. Additionally, he was a commander in the Serbian paramilitary organization Cetniciki Pokret, known for its nationalist and chauvinistic views.

The Romanian Security Service established that Zhivkovich visited Romania four times. In the city of Constanta, he was detained while photographing military radars on the Black Sea coast and transmitting GPS coordinates of these radars. The intelligence services believe he was interested in the NATO military base "Mihail Kogălniceanu."

“All actions of the Serbian citizen in Romania had the nature of secret operations and a specific method characteristic of spy activities. Special measures taken by the General Department of Counterintelligence of the Romanian Information Service led to the prevention of the leakage of classified information that could affect national security,” stated the SRI, adding that Zhivkovich was unable to access any secret information.

The publication Tuzlanki writes that in 2018 he was arrested on suspicion of recruiting Serbs for wars abroad. He allegedly received funding for this from the budget of the self-proclaimed Russian entity in the Luhansk region.

Zhivkovich's name also appears in documents from the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine, where he, along with five other Serbian citizens, is suspected of attacking Ukrainian soldiers in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.