Biography
In August 2023, Aleksandr Kopylets from Armyansk was prosecuted for believing in Jehovah God. Shortly before that, his mother died after a long battle with an illness. His father who was a disability remained in the care of the believer.
Aleksandr was born in July 1977 in Crimea, in the village of Perekop. He has two older sisters. Their father worked as a tractor driver at a factory, and their mother worked in a field brigade.
As a child, Aleksandr loved to ride a bicycle and listen to music. After school, he graduated from Kherson State Technical University with a degree in Equipment for Chemical Industries and Building Materials Enterprises. Up until 2006, he worked as a site foreman at a chemical plant. Then he began to engage in construction work and moved to the urban-type settlement of Pervomaiskoye (Crimea).
As a child, Aleksandr began to read the New Testament. Therefore, when he later met Jehovah's Witnesses, he checked their beliefs and way of life with what is recorded in the Bible. In 1996, he made a conscious decision to embark on the Christian path
In 2012, Aleksandr married Yelena. A dressmaker by trade, she sews outerwear. Also, she has hairdressing skills. Yelena shares her husband's religious views. Seeing how Bible prophecies were being fulfilled, she decided to take the Christian path.
The couple lived in the village Razdolnoye, Kryvyi Rih, Feodosia, Simferopol, Stary Krym, Novooleksiyivka. In 2022, they moved to Armyansk to take care of their sick parents.
Due to criminal prosecution, Aleksandr ended up under house arrest, lost the opportunity to provide for his family and be next to his wife, who is caring for her paralyzed mother. Although Alexander's relatives do not share his beliefs, they are shocked by the criminal prosecution of a peaceful believer.