Remains of Adgur Tsushba, missing since the 1992 to 1993 war, identified
Adgur Tsushba was posthumously awarded the Order of Leon.
SUKHUM / AQW'A — The State Commission on Persons Missing During the Patriotic War of 1992 to 1993, attached to the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Abkhazia, has officially announced that the identity of a serviceman has been established.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) informed the Abkhazian side of the identification of remains belonging to a citizen of the Republic of Abkhazia, Adgur Eduardovich Tsushba, born in 1971. Until now he had been listed among the missing. On 22 July 2026, in the presence of members of his family and closest relatives, the formal identification of the remains took place.
A soldier of the first motor rifle company of the second battalion of the Gumista Front, under the command of Fridon Avidzba, Adgur Tsushba took part in the March offensive. He had been considered missing since 16 March 1993. By decree No. 77 of the President of the Republic of Abkhazia, in 1995, Adgur Tsushba was posthumously awarded the Order of Leon.
The work of searching for and identifying the bodies of those killed in the course of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict continues.