Kostiantyn P. Serhiienko

Born on June 17, 1981, in the city of Mykolaiv. In 1996, he graduated from the 9th grade of general education school No. 26 in Mykolaiv, then attended a vocational technical school specializing in "radio technician." He was engaged in construction and repair work. In 2014, he was mobilized as a volunteer into the Armed Forces of Ukraine by the Leninsky District Military Commissariat of Mykolaiv. He served as a rifleman in the 1st battalion of the 28th separate guards mechanized brigade of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A0666, the urban-type settlement of Chornomorske in the Kominternivskyi district (since 2016 - Lymanskyi) of Odesa region). Since the fall of 2014, he participated in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine. On October 29, 2014, at 23:30, soldier Serhiyenko was on combat duty at a checkpoint near the village of Novomykhailivka in the Marinka district of Donetsk region. At that time, a reconnaissance and sabotage group of militants began shelling the checkpoint with mortars. One of the shells hit a tree and exploded with shrapnel in the trench where soldier Serhiyenko was located. The serviceman received severe fatal injuries while saving his comrade by shielding him from the shrapnel. He is buried in Mykolaiv.