Dmytro V. Kosenko (Shturman)

Deputy Commander of the 118th Separate Battalion of the Territorial Defense Forces Dmytro Kosenko died on August 9, 2022 from injuries sustained in his native Luhansk region. Dmytro was born in Luhansk. He graduated from the Luhansk Higher Military Aviation College of Navigators. From 1991 to 1992, he served in Kutaisi, Georgia. He took the oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people in 1992. In Luhansk, he met his love, Natalia, and they got married there. When Luhansk was occupied by Russian troops in 2014, Dmytro moved his family to Lysychansk. He immediately registered for military service and later went to serve under mobilization. He participated in the ATO. Then he signed a five-year contract, which he extended in 2021. When the full-scale war began, Colonel Dmytro Kosenko was the deputy commander of the 118th Battalion of the 111th Separate Brigade of the Territorial Defense Forces. On the first day of the invasion, he went to the Sevierodonetsk region. He sent his family to Lviv Oblast, and he himself stayed to defend his native Luhansk region. Every day he wrote and phoned his beloved wife. They were always in touch. However, Natalia didn't receive her usual morning message on August 9: in the morning, the officer's heart stopped beating. Dmytro had been nervous and suffered a lot during this war and had untreated concussions. At some point, his heart couldn't take it anymore. "He never complained. He always had everything good. But I myself saw from photos and video calls that his condition was getting worse. I asked him to see the doctors there. But when he heard this, he got indignant. He said, 'My boys are lying in hospitals with serious injuries, and I'll go ask for a cardiogram to be done? I can't do that," his wife Natalia told journalists. The serviceman was buried at the Krasnopil Cemetery in Dnipro. Dmytro left behind a wife and two sons.