Artjom Filienok, Dmitrij Okrest (Артем Филипенок, Дмитрий Окрест): В ДНР погиб командир батальона ополченцев «Сомали» Гиви.rbc.com, 8. Februar 2017, abgerufen am 8. Februar 2017 (russisch): „Der DNI-Milizen-Bataillonskommandeur „Somalia“ Giwi gestorben“
A shot away (Memento vom 24. März 2022 im Internet Archive), ukrainnianweek, 21. Februar 2018; Givi, the infamous field commander murdered in the past years, was mostly playing a media role, and not actually commanding the unit. This was often something their unit members complained about, especially after difficult operations.
