Dmytro V. Labutkin

In 2009, he graduated from the Lviv Institute of Land Forces named after Hetman Petro Sahaidachny with a degree in "Journalism." He served in Sevastopol, participated in distant sea voyages and international military exercises. In the spring of 2014, after the occupation of Crimea by Russian troops, he moved to Odesa. On January 21, 2015, he arrived in Kramatorsk and went to Debaltseve as a journalist, carrying out a task to collect photographic materials for the negotiation group in Minsk. ₴Roman Turovets, military journalist: "This video is from the helmet-mounted GoPro of Dmytro Labutkin, a military journalist, lieutenant captain, deputy editor of the 'Breeze' TV and radio company of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. The footage was taken on February 5, 2015. At that time, Colonel Valentyn Fedichev, along with Dima and Max Avdiyiev, left Debaltseve for the village of Komuna to document the heroic act of the artillerymen of the 128th Mountain Infantry Brigade, who captured a Russian tank. That evening, I copied these video files for myself, and I only remembered about them now. This is Dima's last report. He was last seen alive on February 16, 2015. On February 19, militants posted a video from the battlefield at the Debaltseve railway station, where next to a destroyed armored personnel carrier was Dmytro's body. Dmytro did not have time to publish his report, so now I am doing it for him… And the fighters of the 128th are just great…"