Vadym V. Khlupianets (Mahnum)

Vadym Vasyliovych Khlupiianets was born on June 4, 1996 in Donetsk. He studied in a Ukrainian-language class at School No. 91. After the occupation of Donetsk, his family moved to their relatives in the village of Staryi Dorohin, Narodychi district, Zhytomyr region. Since June 16, 2014, Vadym Khlupiianets had the status of an internally displaced person in the Narodychi settlement community. He graduated from the Kyiv Choreographic College. In 2015, he took the position of ballet dancer at the Kyiv National Academic Theater of Operetta. He was involved in sports - played football and chess. He participated in the sports life of the theater (in 2017 he was recognized as the best striker of the mini-football tournament among theater teams in Kyiv). In his free time, he studied hip-hop. At the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, he joined the territorial defense, and later went to the front as a volunteer as part of the combatant association "Legion of Freedom" of the National Guard of Ukraine. He fought in Rubizhne, Sievierodonetsk, Lysychansk, and Zaitseve. He was killed on November 15, 2022 by a sniper's bullet near Bakhmut, Donetsk region. He was buried in the village of Staryi Dorohin, Zhytomyr region.