Ivan O. Hvozdiev

Gvozdev Ivan Oleksiyovych was born on November 16, 1988, in the city of Kyiv. He devoted most of his life to serving in the Security Service of Ukraine. In 2017, he transferred to the newly created Special Operations Department of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine. With the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, he stood up to defend his native land. He was killed in early September 2022 in a battle against Russian occupiers in the Mykolaiv region.