Mykyta R. Chymshyt (Dok)

24-year-old combat medic Mykyta Chymshyt (call sign Doc) was killed on April 25, 2022 near the settlement of Yampil in the Donetsk region. The soldier evacuated wounded and fallen comrades when his unit was surrounded. The enemy opened mortar fire and then captured the position of the Ukrainian warriors. For over a year, Mykyta was considered missing. However, on May 31, 2023, a DNA examination confirmed his death. Mykyta was born in the city of Pervomaisky, Kharkiv region. From the age of 5, he attended the folk dance group "Koloryt". Then he studied at gymnasium No. 3. In parallel, he graduated from a music school in the accordion class. He actively participated in school events and played in KVK. In the senior classes, he attended a church. In 2018, he graduated from the Krasnohrad Medical College, obtaining the qualification of a paramedic. He worked as an emergency medical paramedic at the Pervomaisky emergency medical care department and headed the paramedic-obstetric point in the settlement of Kyseli. In 2020, he graduated from the Mykolaiv Interregional Institute of Human Development of the Open International University of Human Development "Ukraine", where he studied "Physical Rehabilitation". He took massage courses and practiced boxing in his free time. Later, Mykyta decided to devote himself to military service. On May 15, 2020, he joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He served in the 79th Separate Airmobile Brigade, holding the position of a combat medic in a platoon. In 2021, he completed an advanced training course in tactical medicine, where he passed the exams excellently. Doc met the full-scale invasion together with his comrades, being in the area of the Joint Forces Operation. From the first days of the war, his unit gave a worthy rebuff to the enemy. According to his comrades, Doc saved more than one life. "My son loved life very much. Whatever he took on, he always saw it through to the end. He respected his subordinates. Kind and sensitive. He valued decency in people. A man of his word. He dreamed of starting his own family, the wedding date was already set, but the damned war took away the most precious thing from us... The best son, brother, grandson, nephew, fiancé. As long as I live, you will live in my thoughts, prayers and tears..." - wrote the mother of the fallen warrior Oksana. On June 2, 2023, the hero was buried in the Alley of Glory of the city cemetery in his native Pervomaisky. Mykyta is survived by his mother, younger brother, grandfather and grandmother, aunt and nephew, fiancée, friends and comrades.