Artem V. Skalozub

Born on December 7, 1989, in the village of Manvelivka, Vasylkiv District, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. In 2007, he graduated from the general education school in the village of Manvelivka, Vasylkiv District, and in 2008, he graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Center for Vocational and Technical Education in Printing and Information Technologies (now the Interregional Higher Vocational School of Printing and Information Technologies). From 2009 to 2010, he served in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the spring of 2014, he was mobilized into the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He served in the 25th Separate Dnipropetrovsk Airborne Brigade of the High Mobility Airborne Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A1126, the urban-type settlement of Hvardiyiske, Novomoskovsk District, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast). From the summer of 2014, he participated in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine. On June 14, 2014, around 1:00 AM, the military transport aircraft IL-76 MD of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, while approaching to land at the airport in the city of Luhansk, was shot down by terrorists using a portable anti-aircraft missile system. On board the aircraft were 40 servicemen of the 25th Separate Dnipropetrovsk Airborne Brigade, including Senior Soldier Skalozub, and 9 crew members. As a result of the crash, all personnel of the airborne unit and the aircraft crew were killed. On July 25, 2014, he was buried in the cemetery of the village of Manvelivka, Vasylkiv District. On June 13, 2015, a memorial plaque was unveiled in the village of Manvelivka, Vasylkiv District, on the facade of the general education school (Lenin Street, 38), where Artem Skalozub studied.