Oleksii P. Nikitin

Nikitin Oleksiy Petrovych was born on June 16, 1978, in the village of Burlin, Ural Region (Russia). He resided in the village of Yatranivka, Uman District, Cherkasy Region. With the onset of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 25, 2022, he was mobilized. He served in the military as part of the 30th Separate Mechanized Brigade named after Prince Konstantin Ostrozky, holding the position of operator in the communications platoon. He was killed on March 21, 2022, during an artillery shelling of positions in Donetsk region.