Bohdan S. Pylyp (Bober)

Junior Sergeant Bohdan Pylypchuk (call sign Beaver) was killed on October 10, 2023, while performing his official duties near the settlement of Zhelanne in the Donetsk region. The defender was 32 years old. Bohdan was a native of the village of Volytsya in the Lviv region. In 2009, he obtained a secondary vocational education at a vocational school in the town of Sudova Vyshnia. He served his compulsory military service in the city of Novohrad-Volynskyi, Zhytomyr region. He was a driver in the engineering troops. From 2017 to 2019, he served under contract in the army, and was discharged due to health reasons. Then he began to actively engage in his favorite hobby - breeding pigeons. Before the invasion, he worked at LLC "AhroSem". On the second day of the full-scale invasion, on February 25, 2022, he went as a volunteer to Kyiv. After the liberation of the Kyiv region, he returned home and was mobilized into the Armed Forces of Ukraine on April 5. He was appointed commander of a sapper unit in military unit A4221. In September 2022, he was transferred to the 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade named after Major General Marko Bezruchko, where he held the position of senior medical instructor. As part of his unit, he participated in the defense of Avdiivka. "Bohdan was a patriot and always sought justice. He successfully carried out combat orders. He was shell-shocked during the defense of Avdiivka on December 4, 2022, and after treatment, he returned to the front and served until his death," his brother Volodymyr said. The warrior was buried in his native village. Bohdan is survived by his parents, daughter, brothers, and nephews.