Anatolii S. Zakupets

Purchaser Anatoliy Serhiyovych was born on April 24, 1985, in the village of Maksymivka, Kremenchuk district, Poltava region. After graduating from a general education school in his native village, he worked as a driver at PJSC "Poltava GOK." Since 2014, he served in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, participating in the ATO as part of the 79th Separate Air Assault Brigade. In 2021-2022, he worked as a driver of vehicles for transporting mining mass to the quarry of LLC "Yerystivskyi GOK." With the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, on February 25, 2022, he voluntarily went to the military enlistment office and went to defend his homeland. He fought as part of the 95th Separate Air Assault Brigade. Junior Sergeant Anatoliy Zakupets was killed on March 22, 2022, as a result of an enemy missile hitting the building where he was located, near the city of Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region. The farewell to the fallen took place on March 29, 2022, at the Kremenchuk City Palace of Culture, as well as at the St. Nicholas Cathedral. Anatoliy Zakupets was buried the same day at the Alley of Memory in the Svishchivskyi cemetery in Kremenchuk. For his personal courage, selfless actions, and heroism displayed during the defense of the state sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, as well as loyalty to the military oath, Anatoliy Serhiyovych Zakupets was posthumously awarded the Order of "For Courage" of the III degree.