Oleksii O. Tyshchyk

Born on October 6, 1984, in the urban-type settlement of Shyroke, Shyrokivskyi District, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. In the spring of 2014, he was mobilized as a volunteer to the 25th Separate Airborne Brigade of the High Mobility Airborne Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A1126, urban-type settlement of Hvardiyske, Novomoskovskyi District, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast). Since the spring of 2014, he participated in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine. He was a participant in the battles for the cities of Kramatorsk, Debaltseve, and Shakhtarsk in Donetsk Oblast. After some time, he was transferred to the 79th Separate Air Assault Brigade of the High Mobility Airborne Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A0224, city of Mykolaiv). On September 28, 2014, a column of Ukrainian military vehicles moving towards the old terminal of Donetsk International Airport came under fire from Russian-terrorist groups from the direction of Putilivska Roscha Street in Donetsk. During the battle, the BTR-80 armored personnel carrier leading the column was hit by a Russian T-72 tank, resulting in the deaths of 5 servicemen from the 79th Air Assault Brigade, including Lieutenant Tyshchyk. He was buried on October 24, 2014, at the Zaporizhzhia Cemetery in the city of Dnipropetrovsk (since 2016 - Dnipro).