Dmytro V. Tymchenko (Dimon)

Junior Sergeant Dmytro Tymchenko (call sign Dimon) died on November 7, 2023, as a result of an explosive injury sustained during a battle in the village of Klishchiyivka in the Donetsk region. The defender was 30 years old. Dmytro was from the village of Rozkishne in the Luhansk region. He dedicated a significant part of his life to military service. In April 2013, he signed his first contract. He planned to earn money and go to study. He initially served in Luhansk. After a year, he moved with the military unit to the Dnipropetrovsk region, and then to Kramatorsk. He was a participant in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO). Later, he served in a military unit in Zolotonosha. At the beginning of 2018, he was transferred to the 93rd Separate Mechanized Brigade "Kholodny Yar". He served in a mortar battery. Later, he enrolled at the Educational and Scientific Institute of Pedagogy and Psychology of the Luhansk National University named after Taras Shevchenko, but did not have time to graduate. In his free time, he loved to read books on military topics and maintained his physical fitness. Together with his fiancée, he planned to buy his own home in Dnipro. The beginning of the full-scale war found Dmytro in the Kharkiv region, where he suffered a concussion. In April 2022, he began defending the Izyum direction, participating in battles for the village of Zavody and defending near Velyka Komyshuvakha. From mid-August to the end of December 2022, he defended the city of Soledar, and in January 2023, the city of Bakhmut, where he remained until the end of June. Since August of the same year, he began to carry out tasks to liberate and defend the village of Klishchiyivka in the Donetsk region, where he was killed. During his service, the soldier was awarded the medals "Defender of Soledar" and "Golden Cross". "Dmytro was a very kind and sincere person. There are no more like him... A reliable person, you could turn to him for help at any time, but if he had problems, he didn't tell anyone about them," said the fiancée of the fallen Olena Zhuk. Dmytro was buried at the Krasnopilsky cemetery in Dnipro. The warrior is survived by his fiancée, mother, and grandmother.