Pavlo L. Kosnar

Born on December 2, 1975, in the city of Frunze of the Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic (now the city of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan). In 1991, he graduated from general education school No. 123 in the city of Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region (now Dnipro). In the 1990s, he worked at PJSC "ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih." From 1993 to 1995, he served in the Donetsk border detachment of the Border Troops of Ukraine (military unit 9937, city of Mariupol, Donetsk region). In the spring of 2014, he was mobilized into the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He served in the 25th Separate Dnipropetrovsk Airborne Brigade of the High Mobility Airborne Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A1126, urban-type settlement of Hvardiyske, Novomoskovsk district, Dnipropetrovsk region). From the summer of 2014, he participated in the Anti-Terrorist Operation in eastern Ukraine. On June 14, 2014, around 1:00 AM, the military transport aircraft IL-76 MD of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, while approaching to land at the airport in the city of Luhansk, was shot down by terrorists using a portable anti-aircraft missile system. On board the aircraft were 40 servicemen of the 25th Separate Dnipropetrovsk Airborne Brigade, including Junior Sergeant Kosnar, and 9 crew members. As a result of the crash, all personnel of the airborne unit and the aircraft crew were killed. On July 25, 2014, he was buried at the Central City Cemetery in Kryvyi Rih. In Kryvyi Rih, a memorial plaque was installed on the facade of general education school No. 123 (Mykolaiv Highway, 18), where Pavlo Kosnar studied.