Rostyslav R. Pronkov

Born on November 1, 1994, in the city of Horlivka, Donetsk region. Served under contract in the 25th Separate Dnipropetrovsk Airborne Brigade of the High Mobility Airborne Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A1126, the urban-type settlement of Hvardiyske, Novomoskovsk district, Dnipropetrovsk region). Since the summer of 2014, he participated in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine. On June 14, 2014, around 01:00 at night, the military transport aircraft IL-76 MD of the Air Forces 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 soldier Pronk, and 9 crew members. As a result of the crash, all personnel of the airborne unit and the aircraft crew were killed.