Andrii A. Strus

Born on December 23, 1992, in the city of Sambir, Lviv region. Graduated from secondary school No. 9 in Sambir, then from the Vyshnyansk College of the Lviv National Agrarian University in the village of Vyshnya, Horynetsky district, Lviv region. From May 30, 2014, he served in the military under contract in the 703rd Engineering Vinnytsia Red Banner and Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Order of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A3817, city of Sambir, Lviv region). From July 29, 2014, he participated in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine. On August 31, 2014, soldier Strus was carrying out a combat mission to establish a minefield as part of a barrier group using two Ural-4320 and KAMAZ-4310 trucks in the area of the village of Shevchenko, Volodarsky (now Nikolske) district of Donetsk region. Around 16:30, while at the mine-laying line, the ammunition (about 200 TM-62P4 anti-tank mines with MVП-62M fuses) of the KAMAZ vehicle detonated, which occurred as a result of the container with mines being hit by a grenade launcher shot or an armor-piercing incendiary bullet fired by an unknown person. As a result of the explosion, soldier Strus, who was in the KAMAZ-4310 truck, was killed. Also killed were Lieutenant Colonel Susky, soldier Brzostowski, soldier Shubak, soldier Doroshenko, and soldier Maletsky. On December 22, 2014, he was buried along with Volodymyr Doroshenko and Ihor Brzostowski in a mass grave at the cemetery in the city of Sambir, Lviv region.