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Mykola V. Metlinskyi (Papai)

19 April 1970 – 1 June 2018
Kirovohrad region – Died from wounds
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Senior SergeantSenior Sergeant
Order "For Courage" 3rd ClassOrder "For Courage" 3rd Class

    • Biography

      Lived in Kropyvnytskyi. Served in the navy. Completed training at the Kherson Police School, worked in law enforcement and at the "Yatran" meat processing plant. Loved rock music and motorcycles, belonged to the biker movement, and was a member of the Chyhyryn NGO "Free Cossacks of the Cold Yar." Since 2014, fought as part of the 41st artillery reconnaissance battalion of the 55th Air Assault Brigade, particularly in the Avdiivka area. After demobilization, when his daughter signed a contract, in 2016 he followed her to the 17th battalion.

    • Military service

      Senior Sergeant, Platoon Sergeant
      17th separate motorized infantry battalion (57th separate motorized infantry brigade)
      Died on June 1, 2018, at the Mechnikov Regional Clinical Hospital (Dnipro), where he was taken on May 25. That day, during a sudden shelling near the village of Nevelske in the Yasynuvata district of Donetsk region, Mykola shielded his daughter, a medical instructor, from a mine explosion, saving her life, but he himself sustained a severe shrapnel wound to the head.

    • Burial place

      m. Kropyvnytskyi, Rovenske cemetery, Alley of honorary burials

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