Berezne district

Oleksandr Vasylets was born on May 8, 1978 in the village of Bohushi, Berezne District, Rivne Region. He lived in the city of Bila Tserkva.

Oleksandr served as a junior sergeant, a vehicle commander, and a squad leader of the 72nd independent mechanized infantry brigade. OleksandrVasylets died in the night shelling on July 28, 2014 at the checkpoint “Chervonopartyzansk”Luhansk Region. Oleksandr left two small children.

During several days, the body of the deceased soldier could not be moved from the battlefield.

By Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 873/2014 on November 14, 2014, he was posthumously awarded the III class Order for Bravery “For personal courage and heroism demonstrated in the defense of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, loyalty to the military oath”.

Publications about OleksandrVasylets

All inhabitants of the village came to put the soldier to his final resting place

A 36-year-old soldier and a father of two children was buried in Bohushi Village. He died during the military operations in the east of Ukraine.… Читати далі

Mykola Saiuk was born on December 22, 1987, in the town of Dubno, Rivne Oblast. After the death of his father, when Mykola was four, the family moved up to the village of Adamivka, Bereznyi Raion. Mykola finished 9 classes of Sosniv Secondary School and the same year he entered the Higher Vocational School No. 7, where he obtained two majors: a bricklayer and a cook.

His mother brought up an honest, fair and kind person. The guy was liked and respected by fellow-villagers.  When Mykola grew older, he worked on the construction. From 2012 Mykola was a director of Limited Liability Company «TVK Mercurii» in the city of Kyiv (wholesale trade).

Mykola was fond of hunting and fishing.

When Ukraine rebelled, Mykola couldn’t calmly stay at home. From January 2015 he was an active participant of Maidan Protests, he participated in the battles, including on Hrushevska and Instytutska Streets on “Bloody Thursday”. He was injured for several times on Maidan, both legs were shot with rubber bullets by Berkut troops and he got a knife wound from a criminal hired by the police).… Читати далі

Ruslan Mukomelets was born on March 23, 1974, in a large family of collective farmers in the village of Velyki Selyshcha, Berezne Raion. He finished a local comprehensive school and the Vocational School №8. Ruslan did compulsory military service in the army. After that, he worked in Sosnivka State Forestry.

In the summer of 2015, Ruslan was called up for military service in the Zone of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO).  On January 16, 2016, he tragically lost his life. The soldier was shot by a sniper’s bullet.

The funeral of Ruslan took place on January 20, 2016, in the village of Velyki Selyshcha.

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On July 6th, 1984, Ivan Dus was born in a large family in Velyka Kuplia, Berezne Raion, Rivne Oblast. His mother, Lidiia Basiuk, brought up her son alone. In 1990, Ivan started a school in the Zamostyshche village. Having finished it in 1999, he entered Kostopil Technical College, where he studied for two years. After graduation in 2001, Ivan obtained the qualification of bricklayer and plasterer.

Due to the Presidential Executive Order About Partial Mobilization, on April 22nd, 2015, Ivan joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine. From May 25th, 2015, to August 17th, 2015, he was in the sector “M” in Mariupol. From August 18th, 2015 to October 17th, 2015, he was in the “B” sector in Kurakove, and from November 10th, 2015 to May 18th, 2016, in Stanytsia Luhanska. Ivan was a soldier of the 28th Mechanized Battalion, which was a former 18th Battalion of Odessa.

On May 18th, 2016, he was fatally wounded in the head due to the sniper fire near the village of Malynove, Stanytsia Luhanska Raion, from the side of the occupied Khrystove village.… Читати далі

Ivan Trokhymchuk was born in a large family on July 24, 1993, in the village of Tyshytsia, Berezne Raion.  In 2000 Ivan went to the first grade of Tyshytsia Secondary School, which he graduated from in 2010. According to the words of teachers and classmates, Ivan was a friendly and quiet guy.  Ivan had abilities in the mathematics, and as all the kids of his age, he loved physical training lessons.

In 2012, Ivan was constricted into the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He held the service in Novohrad-Volynsk, Zhytomyr Oblast as a senior shooter-machine-gunner. Ivan was demobilized in 2013.

In 2014, with the beginning of the Anti Terrorist Operation, Ivan Trokhymchuk was mobilized. Before going to Luhansk Oblast, for 40 days Ivan was taking training in Volodymyr-Volynskyi Training Center.

In the period from 06.19.14 to 07.27.2014 and from 07.29.14 to 08.02.2014 Ivan directly participated in ATO in the area of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts.

During the period of service Ivan was injured twice: for the first time – in the battles near the village of Dzerkalne, Luhansk Oblast, for the second – on the territory of the Donetsk Oblast.… Читати далі