Nataliia A. Oksentiuk

Natalia Andriivna Oksentiuk was born on May 4, 1997, in the village of Andronivka, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. She graduated from the Dnipro Basic Medical College. Later, she worked in her field in the city of Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast. In 2020, during a rotation to Luhansk Oblast, Natalia Oksentiuk joined the 93rd Brigade "Kholodnyi Yar." She rescued the wounded near the town of Novotoshkivske in Luhansk Oblast. After that, she went through another rotation in the area of the village of Starohnativka. In 2021, she completed combat medic courses. At the beginning of the full-scale invasion, she was at a training center, where she was mastering the course for senior combat medics. She did not manage to finish her training because the enemy began shelling the training center, and Natalia Oksentiuk was sent back to her brigade. She died on March 8, 2022, near the village of Husarivka while defending the city of Balakliia in Kharkiv Oblast. She is buried in her hometown of Andronivka, Synelnykove Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. For her personal courage and selfless actions displayed in defense of the state sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, and her loyalty to the military oath, Natalia Andriivna Oksentiuk was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage III degree.