Heorhii S. Olkhovskyi (Olkha)

Born on January 8, 1989, in the village of Zarichne, Simferopol district, Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Graduated from the 9th grade of general education school No. 40 in the city of Simferopol, then attended the Crimean Republican Lyceum with enhanced military-physical training in the city of Alushta, Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Served mandatory military service in the 73rd Naval Center for Special Operations of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A1594, city of Ochakiv, Mykolaiv region). After mandatory military service, he entered the Hetman Petro Sahaidachny National Ground Forces Academy (city of Lviv), which he graduated from in 2014. Since 2014, he served in the 15th Separate Mountain Infantry Sevastopol Battalion of the 128th Separate Mountain Assault Transcarpathian Brigade of the Operational Command "West" of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A1778, city of Uzhhorod). Participated in the anti-terrorist operation and the Joint Forces Operation in eastern Ukraine. On August 23, 2018, Senior Lieutenant Olkhovskyi was killed by a sniper's bullet during the shelling of a Ukrainian military checkpoint by Russian-terrorist groups near the village of Starohnativka in the Volnovakha district of Donetsk region.