Biography
Valeriy Baylo, a pensioner from the Krasnodar Territory, devoted almost 20 years of his life to fighting crime, working in the internal affairs bodies. He had a good reputation among his colleagues. However, in the spring of 2024, the man himself became an accused because of his faith in Jehovah God. His house was searched, after which the believer ended up in a pre-trial detention center.
Valeriy was born in November 1957 in the village of Roylyanka, Odessa region of Ukraine. He has a younger brother. Their father worked on a state farm as a combine operator, and their mother was a high school math teacher. The parents are no longer alive.
As a child, Valeriy loved to play chess and read books, was engaged in freestyle wrestling. After school, he graduated from the Nikolayev Shipbuilding Institute and got a job at the locomotive depot, where he met Yekaterina. In 1979 they got married. The marriage produced two sons and a daughter.
In the early 1980s, Valeriy, his wife and son moved to Yakutsk, where he worked in the police. In 1992, a family with two children returned to Ukraine, where Valeriy continued to work in the police. After 2 years, they moved to Gelendzhik (Krasnodar Territory), where the head of the family got a job as a district police officer, and later took the position of operational duty officer in Arkhipo-Osipovka, a village located 50 kilometers from Gelendzhik.
In 1999, Valeriy retired and started breeding goats, rabbits and chickens. Yekaterina taught history and German at college and school. She was fond of local history and tourism—she organized hikes for students, conducted excursions to historical sites in the vicinity of Gelendzhik. Yekaterina also loved to read books, especially poetry, as well as play chess.
In the early 2000s, Valeriy became interested in the Bible, and soon his wife joined him in researching this book. In 2001, the couple became Jehovah's Witnesses. They were impressed by the detailed Bible prophecies and the scientific facts mentioned in the Bible.
In 2002, Yekaterine fell ill and later died of cancer. Due to the market crash, the family lost all the money earned in the North, and Valeriy and his three children were forced to live at the plant for seven years without electricity and water.
Valeriy suffers from a chronic disease, which, when exacerbated, is accompanied by acute pain. In addition, the believer has a complete rupture of the ligaments of the knee joint, and the knee rests solely on the muscles, which causes severe pain.
According to Valeriy, faith in God helps him cope with all difficulties. Despite the criminal prosecution, the believer tries to remain calm. "Now we are defending Jehovah, but soon he will stand up for us!" he said.