Roman M. Sekh

Born on August 24, 1989, in the urban-type settlement of Pokrovsk, Dnipropetrovsk region. In 2005, he graduated from the 9th grade of secondary school No. 1 - Pokrovsk Lyceum of the urban-type settlement of Pokrovsk, and in 2008, he graduated from the Order of the Badge of Honor Higher Vocational School No. 75 with a specialty in "electrician for repair and maintenance of electrical equipment" in the village of Oleksandrivka, Pokrovsk district, Dnipropetrovsk region. From 2008 to 2009, he served in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He worked as a security guard in the city of Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro). In the spring of 2014, he was mobilized into the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He served as a rifleman in the 20th Separate Motorized Infantry Battalion of the 93rd Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit V2231). Since 2014, he participated in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine. On January 22, 2015, Russian armed formations entered the village of Krasny Partizan (since 2016 - Betmanove) in the Yasynuvata district of Donetsk region with armored vehicles, where there was a checkpoint with a platoon of the 20th Separate Motorized Infantry Battalion, which included Junior Sergeant Sekh. Despite the numerical superiority of the enemy, the defenders of the checkpoint held out for two hours. Junior Sergeant Sekh was killed in this battle. He is buried in the cemetery of the urban-type settlement of Pokrovsk, Dnipropetrovsk region.