Kostiantyn I. Zholudiev (Zokhan)

Soldier Kostiantyn Zholudiev (call sign Zokhan) was killed on February 1, 2023 in battle with the occupiers near the city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region. The defender received fatal shrapnel wounds during enemy shelling. He would have turned 34 years old on October 14. Kostiantyn was from the city of Makiivka in the Donetsk region. In childhood, he moved with his parents to the Kharkiv region. From the age of 12, he lived in the city of Izium. There he graduated from school No. 6. In 2009, he obtained the profession of a mason-plasterer at the Izium Vocational Lyceum. When he came of age, he settled in Kharkiv. In 2009-2021, he worked as a dairy products expeditor at the Hercules company, and from 2021 he was a packer at D.ASTOR LLC. During the full-scale Russian invasion, the man joined the ranks of the defenders of Ukraine and joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He fought against the occupiers in the ranks of the 93rd Separate Mechanized Brigade "Kholodnyi Yar". He was a rifleman-medic. "Kostya was a very decent person, kind, caring, peaceful, a wonderful father, a loving husband. He always came to help everyone. Calm, reasonable, hardworking, a real man, a brave warrior. He fought to the last breath together with his comrades-in-arms, the best warriors of our country, for the integrity and independence of our Motherland. He is the Universe and a true Hero for me!" - said the wife of the fallen Iryna Shevchenko. The warrior was buried in the Alley of Glory of cemetery No. 18 in Kharkiv. He is survived by his parents, sister, wife and daughter. The soldier was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage of the III degree.