Oleksandr I. Kolisnyk

Soldier Oleksandr Kolisnyk (call sign Bledny) died on December 4, 2022, while carrying out a combat mission near the settlement of Bilohorivka, Luhansk region. The defender was 29 years old. Oleksandr was born in the village of Pustovity, Kyiv region. He lived in the village of Rosava. He received higher education at the Myronivka branch of the Eastern European University of Economics and Management, where he obtained the specialty of a programmer. He loved programming, radio electronics, numismatics, and fishing. He was interested in space. Together with a friend, they started their own business, engaged in repairs, installation of fences and video surveillance, and other works. At the same time, he worked as a freelance programmer. Oleksandr was a true patriot, so in 2014 he joined the participants of the Euromaidan, defending the interests of Ukraine and its European integration. In 2017, together with a friend, he founded the military-patriotic club "Yastreb", where he engaged in military-sports and national-patriotic education of Ukrainian youth based on the traditions of the Ukrainian Cossacks. During the full-scale invasion, he volunteered for the front. He was a scout of the reconnaissance platoon. He defended the country near Sloviansk, Bilohorivka, Lyman, and Bohorodychne. During reconnaissance operations, he had more than 15 exits behind enemy lines. "Bledny always had respect in the team and spoke his mind directly, he was brave. He passed away on December 4, 2022, during the execution of the combat mission "Assault". That day, 70 people fought against 11. Our entire group was surrounded and cut off. Bledny was in that small group that came to save their brothers! He came to save us and stood in position until the end! When we met, he seemed as strange as possible: he played the guitar, talked on the phone for hours, but at the same time was always bustling and telling things incomprehensible to the common people! My brother was a person who lived to the fullest, we were never sad or ashamed together. I would like to write about his courage, patriotism, humanity, but there are not enough epithets to tell what kind of person he was. Sanya died so that we could be free, he is forever in my heart! I won't forget! I won't forgive! Intelligence does not die, it goes to work in heaven!" - recalls a comrade-in-arms with the call sign Babai. "Oleksandr was a scout, so the circumstances of his death remain classified until the end of the Russian-Ukrainian war. All we know about him are just short stories from his comrades-in-arms who survived that combat mission "Assault". Heroes do not die. They just stop being around. They fly away... Quietly and without saying goodbye. Perhaps because they did not intend to die. They had plans, wanted to love, have children, study, work, and enjoy life. It was not destined... They become stars in the sky, our guardian angels," - said his wife Yevheniia. The defender was buried in the village of Rosava, Kyiv region. Oleksandr left behind a wife. Posthumously, he was awarded the title of "Honorary Citizen of the Myronivka community".