Mykola V. Prudii

Born on May 22, 1995, in the village of Velyki Budyshcha, Hadyach district, Poltava region. In 2010, he graduated from the 9th grade of the general education school in the village of Velyki Budyshcha, and in 2013 - from the Hadyach Professional Agrarian Lyceum with a specialty in "tractor driver-machine operator of agricultural production." He has been in the Armed Forces of Ukraine since November 2013. He served under contract as a mechanic-driver in 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, Kominternivskyi district (since 2016 - Lymanskyi district) of Odesa region). Since July 2014, he participated in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine. On August 16, 2014, soldier Prudyi was killed during a shelling from the Grad multiple rocket launcher at the brigade's positions in the area of the village of Blahodatne, Amvrosiivskyi district, Donetsk region. Along with him, 5 other servicemen were killed. On August 21, 2014, he was buried in the cemetery of the village of Velyki Budyshcha, Hadyach district, Poltava region.