Danil O. Kirillov

Born on August 12, 1990, in the urban-type settlement of Charkhin, Pastdargom District, Samarkand Region, Republic of Uzbekistan. In the early 1990s, he moved with his family to the village of Dolynivka, Brusyliv District, Zhytomyr Region, for permanent residence. He graduated from a general education school and the Zhytomyr Agricultural College with a specialty in "driver and wide-profile mechanic." During his studies at the college, he worked part-time during vacations at the Limited Liability Company "Dolynivske" in the village of Dolynika. He served his mandatory military service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He served in the Separate Kyiv Presidential Regiment of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A0222, Kyiv). After military service, he worked as a driver at the private enterprise "Ukraine" in the village of Vodotiya, Brusyliv District, Zhytomyr Region. On March 18, 2014, he was mobilized into the Armed Forces of Ukraine by the Korostyshiv Combined City District Military Commissariat of Zhytomyr Region. He served as a driver-grenadier in the 2nd Howitzer Battalion of the 30th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A0409, Novograd-Volynskyi, Zhytomyr Region). From March 2014, he served at checkpoints in Kherson Region on the administrative border with the occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea by Russian troops. From the summer of 2014, he participated in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine. On August 11, 2014, at 14:00, soldier Kirilov was killed during shelling from BM-21 "Grad" multiple rocket launchers and tanks at the brigade command post in the area of the village of Stepanyvka, Shakhtarsk District, Donetsk Region. He was buried on August 15, 2014, at the cemetery of the village of Dolynivka, Brusyliv District, Zhytomyr Region.