Anatolii M. Fedchyshyn (Bilyi)

In 2001, he graduated from the Shatsk Forestry Technical School (since 2006 - Shatsk Forestry College named after V. V. Sulka) with a degree in "Forestry." He served in the military. Since November 19, 2002, continuing the dynasty of his grandfather and father, he worked as a master and crane operator at the lower warehouse of the state enterprise "Lyuboml Forestry" of the Volyn Regional Department of Forestry and Hunting. Since March 2014, together with his younger brother, he underwent training at the bases of the DUC "Right Sector," later serving with his brother in the Donetsk region in the territorial defense battalion "Dnipro-2," as part of a mobile reconnaissance assault group. He participated in about 60 battles, was wounded, but returned to duty. From his hospital bed, Anatoliy got up several times, dressed, and rushed into battle, surprising doctors with his indomitable desire and determination to return to the ATO zone, even though they had not yet allowed it. After recovering, Anatoliy was offered to go home and rest. But he decided to stay with his comrades until September, and then he wanted to come back to take his eldest daughter Viktoriya to school for the first grade… He was buried in the ancient Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, near his native home, in the presence of relatives and friends, representatives of the district authorities, colleagues from the forestry sector, comrades from the DUC PS, and many residents of Lyuboml… Olga, his sister, a volunteer: "More than once, when I called the guys, they told me: today after the battle, we survived only by a miracle. But they never said they were scared, that they would come back because of that. There was such a conversation with Tolik after four months of separation when we asked him to come back, he convincingly said that there could be no talk of that, that it was his duty to defend the state, they were needed here, this is our Motherland, we must stand here, it must be whole. I understand this because for us since childhood the word 'Motherland' is not just a word. And now, when I hear the words of the anthem 'We will lay down our soul and body for our freedom,' they just resonate because they are truly engraved on the heart. Therefore, I really want our Ukraine to prosper and be a country of happiness for children. In childhood, Anatoliy was a very quiet, calm, ordinary boy; in his teenage years, he developed a heightened sense of justice. He respected his parents, his wife, his family very much — this was sacred to him. He never thought much about himself; he always had everything good, worried more about his loved ones, calmed them, encouraged them, and did not want them to worry about him."