Mykhailo V. Pliushch

Born on June 15, 1987, in the village of Petrove, Znamyanka district, Kirovohrad region. In the spring of 2014, he was mobilized to the 79th Separate Airborne Brigade of the High Mobility Airborne Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A0224, city of Mykolaiv). Since the spring of 2014, he participated in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine. On July 11, 2014, in the area of the village of Zelenopillya, Sverdlovsk district (since 2016 - Dovzhansky district) of Luhansk region, around 4:30 in the morning, Russian-terrorist groups shelled the base camp of Ukrainian troops with BM-21 "Grad" multiple rocket launchers. As a result of the shelling, 7 servicemen of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine and 30 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed, among them soldier Plyushch, who sustained serious injuries and was evacuated to the Mechnikov Regional Clinical Hospital in Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro), where he died from his injuries on July 12. He was buried on July 16, 2014, in the cemetery of the village of Podorozhne, Svitlovodsk district, Kirovohrad region.