Mykola M. Bondarenko (Frantsuz)

Bondarenko Mykola Mykolaiovych (callsign Frenchman) was born on August 23, 1998 in Kryvyi Rih. In 2013, he graduated from school-lyceum No. 35 "Impulse" of the Kryvyi Rih City Council and entered the budget of the Mining Professional College, where in 2017 he obtained the qualification of a junior specialist in the specialty "Open-pit mining, mining technician-technologist". In September 2017, he began working at the Artem-1 mine of the ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih enterprise. He studied in the correspondence form of the Kryvyi Rih National University, at the Faculty of Information Technologies. In May 2018, he went to the military registration and enlistment office and was sent to serve in the military unit 3021 of the National Guard of Ukraine. Then he signed a 3-year contract with the unit. He participated in sambo competitions from the military unit. In 2021, after the end of the contract, he returned to work at the mine. On February 25, 2022, he was mobilized into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and fought in the Donetsk direction as part of the 2nd battalion of self-propelled defense of the 25th brigade. He died in battle on April 27, 2022.