Oleksandr R. Khaletskyi (Khalk)

Soldier Oleksandr Khaletskyi (call sign Hulk) was killed on September 25, 2022 near the village of Volodymyrivka in the Donetsk region. While performing his duties, he came under enemy artillery fire and received a fatal shrapnel wound to the neck. The warrior was forever 22 years old. Oleksandr was born and lived in Dnipro. After school, he graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Center for Vocational Education of the State Employment Service and obtained the profession of a rigger. In civilian life, he worked as a surface defect processor at the Interpipe enterprise. His greatest passions were cars and computers. He also practiced boxing. During the full-scale Russian invasion, Oleksandr went to defend his country from the enemy. He joined the ranks of the 234th battalion of the 128th separate brigade of the territorial defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He took the position of a shooter and went to the front line. Together with his comrades-in-arms, he bravely carried out combat missions and sincerely believed in victory. "From the first days of the war, Sasha unhesitatingly stood up to defend the Motherland. In civilian life, he was very sociable, cheerful, cheerful, passed exams at a university and had plans for further study," said his grandmother Natalia Georgievna. The young defender was buried at the Krasnopilsky cemetery in his hometown. The warrior is survived by his mother, two younger brothers, grandmother and grandfather. Oleksandr Khaletskyi was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage of the III degree.