Ivan Sokolov, born 1991, January 22nd in Kazan.

The start of Ivan’s life starts as many other Russians' lives, born into poverty, not for a lack of effort of Ivan’s parents. Growing up he was fed, clothed, and had a roof over his head. This was more than some unlucky people during the 90s.

When Ivan turned 18 he enlisted in the Russian Air Force, where he trained to fly multiple classes of the Russian helicopters like the Kamov class helicopter, the Mill class helicopter, and the VRT class helicopter. After his training was complete, he was attached to the 1st Guard Tank Army as air support, he stayed with the regiment for the foreseeable future.

During late 2021 Ivan was assisting Russian forces in the invasion of Finland, during this time Russian forces had lost most communication and were camped out on the border of Finland awaiting orders from their commander, when finally the commander had new directions from the Kremlin to stage a reconnaissance mission into Norway, specifically Nyheim.

Tasked with new orders, Ivan began his flight to begin his reconnaissance mission into Nyheim.

Ivan and a group of men onboard his helicopter, finally after a few hours of flying arrived in Nyheim and what they saw was far beyond what they could've imagined, the main city was completely walled off from the outside world, guards standing watch, it was like the people who lived here knew what was coming, on their return flight over nyheim, they passed over a small military compound where they saw a small group of individuals, it was very dark at this time, so Ivan switched on the spotlight on his helicopter, then out of nowhere the small group began to open fire, Ivan bugged out and begins to set his course back to report this to his commander.